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This is the story of a couple's travels on a forty-foot trawler cruising 6300 miles and 145 locks around the eastern part of North America known as America's Great Loop or the Great Circle Cruise. Their nautical ineptitude is evident from the beginning, but pulling from their personal and collective strengths, the authors overcome doubt, a lack of experience, and real and imagined horrors. The odyssey is told the way life hands out its adventures -- sometimes humorously, sometimes tragically, but always memorably. The writing is light and appealing, but there is a serious strain running through the book for those who relish history and descriptions of the landscape. Astute and attentive to detail, they chronicled events and kept an account of expenses, equipment and charting. As a result, the appendix/guidebook is worth the price of the book for anyone interested in planning their cruise. Topics include necessary charts and guidebooks, information on locks, sett! ing an itinerary, resource addresses and websites, details on equipment and the best place to be educated about boating. The book has full-color inserts with black and white photographs interspersed throughout..
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Find your way down the Intracoastal Waterway between the Chesapeake Bay and Florida

The Intracoastal Waterway Chartbook provides a complete set of navigational charts (a $350 value) for the 1,090-mile ICW from Norfolk to Miami, as well as major Atlantic inlets, in a single, easy-to-use $70 package. Proven over 16 years and four prior editions, the Chartbook includes a complete listing of waterway bridge and lock characteristics, anchorages and waterway facilities; also pilotage notes, mileage charts, and charts for a picturesque alternate route.

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What is it like to cut loose and sail away for a year?

How do you really do it?

Join them in their Adventure!

Taking their cat along as a referee, Steve and Margaret Watterson spent a year on their 30-foot sailboat traveling from Cleveland, Ohio to the Florida Keys and back. In this book, they describe their experience--the good times and the bad--in order to share it with those who dream of some day cutting off the phone, canceling the paper, and locking the door behind them.

If you have ever wondered how to actually do this, you will enjoy this book. The Wattersons tell how much they spent, how they handled mail, and what charts and cruising guides they used. They cover insurance, how to prepare a boat for this kind of trip, and much more..
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Adventures in the Ditch is not only a fascinating sea story of a great voyage on the Intracoastal Waterway, it’s a personal memoir of two brothers and their father.

Jon Coile developed a love for the sea and a thirst for nautical adventure at a young age. Hoping to rekindle the wanderlust and excitement of their early years sailing together, Coile, his brother, and their eighty-something father embark on a nine-day, 1,250-mile voyage on the Intracoastal Waterway—from the Chesapeake Bay to Miami. Their refurbished vessel, Griffin, offers up her own set of challenges, and the trio encounter other unexpected situations along the way, leading to creative solutions, and providing a penetrating view of the daily reality of an Intracoastal cruise.

More than a mere boat trip, Adventures in the Ditch is a rich, warm, and personal story of family relationships.

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The only cruising guide devoted exclusively to South Carolina and Georgia, this book covers almost every body of water along the coast as far inland as it is safe to navigate The guide includes maps, historical summaries, coastal folklore, listings of coastal marinas and their services, and tips on shoreside attractions..
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This book is the story of people of vision and courage, of a small group of prominent Saint Augustine investors who conceived of the Florida waterway and began the first dredging work; of an obscure group of New England capitalists who provided significant financing and obtained a million acres of undeveloped Florida public land in pursuing what was, at best, a speculative enterprise; of innumerable citizen groups like the Florida east coast chamber associations and the larger Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association that demanded at the turn of the last century what they believed was the peoples right-a public waterway, free of the burden of tolls; and finally, of the U>S> Army Corps of Engineers, who conducted all of the Florida waterway's early surveys and assumed the project's control in 1929 to convert what was once a private toll way into Florida's modern-day, toll-free Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway..
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The only cruising guide devoted exclusively to North Carolina, this book covers almost every body of water along the coast as far inland as it is safe to navigate The guide includes historical summaries, coastal folklore, listings of coastal marinas and their services, and tips on shoreside attractions..
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The only cruising guide of its kind that is updated annually, WATERWAY GUIDE Mid-Atlantic 2008 edition is the indispensable cruising companion for boaters exploring the Chesapeake Bay and Intracoastal Waterway from Mile 0 at Norfolk through Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia to the Florida line as well as the Delmarva Coast and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The spiral-bound guide with bookmarker flaps includes updated, comprehensive navigational information, aerial photography with marked routes, 700 marina listings and locator charts, anchorages, plus helpful cruising information like GPS waypoints, distance charts, planning maps, bridge tables, and Goin Ashore features on favorite ports along the way..
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This book is the story of people of vision and courage, of a small group of prominent Saint Augustine investors who conceived of the Florida waterway and began the first dredging work; of an obscure group of New England capitalists who provided significant financing and obtained a million acres of undeveloped Florida public land in pursuing what was, at best, a speculative enterprise; of innumerable citizen groups like the Florida east coast chamber associations and the larger Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association that demanded at the turn of the last century what they believed was the peoples right-a public waterway, free of the burden of tolls; and finally, of the U>S> Army Corps of Engineers, who conducted all of the Florida waterway's early surveys and assumed the project's control in 1929 to convert what was once a private toll way into Florida's modern-day, toll-free Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway..
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Updated annually, WATERWAY GUIDE 2009 Atlantic ICW edition is the indispensable cruising companion for boaters exploring the Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk, VA to the Florida border. The guide features mile-by-mile navigation information, aerial photography with marked routes, marina listings and locater charts, anchorage information, and expanded Goin Ashore articles on ports along the way. Helpful cruising data like GPS waypoints, detailed planning maps, distance charts, and bridge tables help get cruisers there safely. Flexible spiral binding and heavy laminated covers with bookmarker flaps ensure durability and easy use in the cockpit and at the helm..
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