Atlantic Cruising Club's Guide to Florida's East Coast Marinas: Fernandina, Florida to Key West, Florida (Book & CD-ROM) - Softcover

Bridget Balthrop Morton; Elizabeth Adams Smith

9780966402872: Atlantic Cruising Club's Guide to Florida's East Coast Marinas: Fernandina, Florida to Key West, Florida (Book & CD-ROM)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966402871 ISBN 13: 9780966402872

Publisher: Atlantic Cruising Club Inc, 2005

Facts, Facts, and more Facts + Photos, Rates, Ratings, and Reviews. Absolutely everything you need to know to decide where to tie up for a night or a week, packed into the only objective consumers’ guide to marinas and marine facilities.

For more than a decade, the Atlantic Cruising Club has been providing highly detailed, objective marina information to the East Coast boating consumer. The latest Guide – the Seventh Edition - has now grown to nine regional volumes covering Bar Harbor, ME to Padre Island, TX in the East, and Point Roberts, WA to Chula Vista, CA on the West Coast. The regional Guides are being published sequentially. The two regional volumes, ACC's Guide to New England Marinas and ACC's Guide to Long Island Sound Marinas were very well received and the third regional volume, the Atlantic Cruising Club’s Guide to Florida's East Coast Marinas, is now complete. 226 Marina Reports and thousands of photos cover Fernandina to Key West. These are consumers’ guides – marina advertising is neither solicited nor accepted and there is no charge to the marinas for inclusion.

The new edition has been expanded to an 8 �" x 11" format to accommodate the addition of both photographs and 50% more information -- up to 300 facts on each marina. Every facility is now rated on three scales – 1 to 5 Bells for cruiser services, 1 or 2 Travelifts for boatyard services and a Sunset for very special places. Marina information covers contact info, marina operations, rates, services, facilities, megayacht services, navigation information, boat supplies (chandleries, propane, ice, CNG, bait), and boatyard capabilities (rates, certifications, specialties, etc.). The very detailed "what’s near by" sections cover restaurants (names & price ranges, too), lodgings (rates), recreation (from golf and tennis to swimming and bowling), entertainment (cinemas to museums, tours, and live theater), provisioning (including the nearest chain supermarkets, gourmet shops, farmers’ markets, fishmongers, etc.),general services (from bookstores and hardware stores to full-service laundries), transportation (rental cars, courtesy cars, airports and limos, cabs, bike rentals, water taxis, ferry services, local busses, rail, etc.) and medical services (from 911 and hospitals to massage therapists and vets). The "Review" section is comprised of three densely packed paragraphs (Setting, Marina Notes, and Notable), each chock full of even more useful information.

The Atlantic Cruising Club’s Guides to Marinas are delivered in both print and CD-ROM formats (in one package). Each volume includes 1,600-2,000 photographs - one of each marina in the Book, and 4-9 full-color photos of each on the CD-ROM. The easy-to-use CD-ROM allows boaters to search on over 100 fields—location, rates, ratings, reported depths, etc., etc., etc – and it stores in a sturdy clear vinyl sleeve in the back of the book.

Both the Book and CD-ROM have been designed with easy navigation in mind. A Regional Map shows all 226 marinas covered in the ACC’s Guide to Florida's East Coast Marinas and 15 sub-region maps locate the marinas in a particular area. On the CD-ROM, the map is in full-color and all the marina "buttons" are "hot"; just click to display that marina’s Report. Or use the very flexible CD search tool which makes searching on over 100 data fields very simple. For instance: "Show me all the marinas in the Lower Keys that have slips with at least 6 ft. of reported depth at MLW, charge less than $1.50 per foot, and have at least a 3 Bell Rating." Or "Show me all the marinas in the Miami area that have a supermarket within walking distance, that welcome pets, have a spa nearby, and that have handicapped access to the docks." Or "Show me all the Marinas on Lake Worth that can manage an LOA of 120 feet, and also have a boatyard onsite, a laundry, pool, and restaurant." Or "Show me all the marinas in Jacksonville that have 50 amp pedestals, an on-site diesel engine mecha

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About the Author:

ADDITIONAL AUTHOR - ONLY ONE NOW DISPLAYS; FIRST IS: Bridget Balthrop Morton

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Elizabeth Adams Smith

Beth has been "messing about in boats" for most of her life – in the early years it was one-designs (she and her brother, Rick, sailed a Comet) and later considerably larger cruising boats. Coastal cruises, with her husband, Richard (editor of this volume), have included numerous trips along the Eastern seaboard, including the ICW, where they’ve perfected the art of "achievable cruising" – cruise for a week or two, leave the boat, go home, come back a month or two later and continue on. Other cruising adventures have taken them to Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and the Mediterranean. They have shared many of these experiences with three superb crew members – their now-grown children Jason and Amanda and their sea-dog Molly. She and Richard are firm believers in "going" even if it means taking the office along - and technology has made that not only possible but quite easy. They are also committed to wonderful food along the way – on board and ashore. Provisioning, they’ve discovered, may be the most useful of all cruising skills and they seek out the best resources at every landfall. Along the way, they’ve visited well over 2,000 marinas (most several times) as both cruisers and authors.

In addition to being one of the primary writers of the ACC’s Guides to Marinas, Beth is incubating the Wandering Mariner’s Water Lovers imprint (land-based travel guides for people with a passion for the water) and the Healthy Boat series (holistic approaches to crew lifestyle and vessel management. She is also a new media designer/producer and has produced numerous documentaries and multiple media projects in the areas of complementary and integrative medicine, holistic living, ecology, peace-making, technology and food and health (including the award-winning "Children of War", the Mellon-funded "Students at Work", and "Earth

Review:

"Whether you need to tie on, plug in, pump out, or hunker down, this guide with steer you true." -- Curtis Rindlaub, co-author of the 14-year best-seller A Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast, 4th Edition

...in short, everything anyone could possibly want to know. -- Yachting, 2003

After hurricane delayed research, a new guidebook ... required ACC to revisit 95% of the 226 marinas excellently detailed in book. -- Practical Sailor - May, 2005

Nearly as indispensable as the boat itself, the entire series of ACC cruising guides are exemplary for completeness and objectivity. -- Blue Water Sailing, September 2003

makes heading ashore much less of a crapshoot - marinas rated with respect to facilities, BY services & scenic beauty. -- Yachting

the bible - Nearly as indispensable as the boat itself, the entire series is exemplary for its completeness and objectivity." -- Blue Water Sailing

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