2016 ICW Cruising Guide: A guide to safely navigating over 100 hazards on the Atlantic ICW with full color charts along with advice and tips by Bob423
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1535257172 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 206 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Best guide for ICW!! Jan Great guide for us! We used so much of Bob's suggestions getting our boat ready and then cruising down the ICW to our new home in Palm Beach!!! Bob's guidance on Active Captain was always right on!. Neil ORourke said Not what I was expecting.. Light in substance. Basically a reprint of their blog. Some good info but not a cruising guide.. "This is a Must Have guide if you are planning a cruise down the ICW." according to HankP. This is a great guide! As a cruising sailor (This is a Must Have guide if you are planning a cruise down the ICW. HankP This is a great guide! As a cruising sailor (42' sloop with 6' draft), with a lot of time on the ICW, and someone who briefs transiting cruisers here in Southport NC on weather and safely navigating ICW "trouble spots", I bring a fairly unique perspective to this review. First,their early Chapters on preparation, tips and recommendations are spot on. Despite having cruised the ICW off and on for 15 years, I picked up ma. 2' sloop with 6' draft), with a lot of time on the ICW, and someone who briefs transiting cruisers here in Southport NC on weather and safely navigating ICW "trouble spots", I bring a fairly unique perspective to this review. First,their early Chapters on preparation, tips and recommendations are spot on. Despite having cruised the ICW off and on for 15 years, I picked up ma
Each chart has a mile marker location along with the minimum water found through the hazard as part of the hazard title at the top of each page. Nothing is second hand except I did include hydrographic charts from Wilmington and Charleston ACOE where available to aid in transiting the worse of the shallow areas. The guide is not a complete compendium of all marinas and anchorages; there are plenty of other guides for that. For the 2016 edition, the charts have been enlarged to show better detail and buoys now have their own labels (G3, R4, etc.) in larger type for easy reading. Since I use an iPad, I've also included instructions on how to transfer the GPX routes into the iPad for both the Navimatics Charts and Tides app and also the Garmin Mobile app. Many of the advice comments didn't change, after all there's a base level of things to do that does not change year to year but there are still updates with additional experiences. It can be very tedious manually entering the waypoints not to mention being error prone