Atlantic Cruising Club's Guide to New England Marinas (Book & CD-ROM) - Softcover

Smith, Elizabeth Adams; Smith, Richard Y.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966402839 ISBN 13: 9780966402834

Publisher: Jerawyn Publishing Inc., 2003

Synopsis

The Atlantic Cruising Club takes the guesswork out of putting ashore with the release of 7th Edition, Volume 1: Atlantic Cruising Club’s Guide to New England Marinas. Facts, Facts, and more Facts. 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.Rates, Ratings, and Reviews.

For most boaters cruising is one part fun, one-part adventure, one part stress, one part food and one part character building – a pretty exhilarating and exhausting combination. So, at the end of the day, all you really want to do is tie-up, kick back and relax. If you’re away from home waters that often means finding a slip or mooring. But a marina stay can be expensive – sometimes as expensive as a nice hotel room – and a lot harder to leave if it’s not what you expected. To choose the "right" marina, you can spend hours on the phone quizzing dockmasters or rely on those little chartlets in the cruising guides or trust the veracity of the marina ads. Or you can turn to the Atlantic Cruising Club’s Guides to Marinas – complete with bound-in searchable CD-ROMs. 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 six regional volumes covering Bar Harbor, Maine to Padre Island, Texas – and is being published sequentially over the next eight months. The first regional volume, the Atlantic Cruising Club’s Guide to New England Marinas is at the printer and the second regional volume, the Atlantic Cruising Club’s Guide to Long Island Sound Marinas, will be released in mid July.

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 ½" x 11" format to accommodate the addition of both photographs and 50% more information than in the Sixth Edition -- up to 300 facts on each marina. Every facility is now rated on three scales – 1-5 Bells for cruiser services, 1-2 Travelifts for boatyard services and a Sunset for very special places. The "Review" section is comprised of three densely packed paragraphs (Setting, Marina Notes, and Notable), each chock full of even more useful information.

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 to 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 to hospitals to massage therapists to vets).

The Atlantic Cruising Club’s Guides to Marinas are delivered in both print and CD-ROM formats (in one package). Each volume includes over 1,500 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 230 marinas covered in the ACC Guide to New England Marinas and 12 sub-region maps locate the marinas in a particular area. On the CD-ROM, the map is in full-color

About this title

About the Author:

About the Authors: Beth and Richard Smith

Richard and Beth have been "messing about in boats" at various times throughout their lives, individually and together. The last two decades have seen a move up to "big boats." Coastal cruises have included numerous trips up and down the Eastern seaboard including the ICW — where they’ve perfected the art of "achievable cruising" — a one or two week cruise, leave the boat, go home, and come back two weeks or a month or two later. 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 crewmembers — their now-grown children, Jason and Amanda and their sea-dog, Molly. They are firm believers in "going" even if it means taking the office along. Technology has made that not only possible, but also amazingly easy. Even their boat is networked. They are also committed to wonderful food along the way — on board and ashore. Provisioning, they’ve discovered, may be the most useful and entertaining of all cruising skills (bested, perhaps, only by sail trim, engine mechanics and a clear understanding of navigation) and they seek out the best resources at every landfall. Along the way, they’ve also visited more than 1500 marinas on the East coast as both cruisers and authors.

Elizabeth Adams Smith, Ed.D. is Editor-in-Chief of Jerawyn Publishing (JPI) and one of the primary writer/photographers of the Guides to Marinas. She is also a new media designer/producer focused on developing electronic methods of delivering large quantities of unique information in ways that are readily understood and manipulated.

In addition to her marine-oriented publishing work (nurturing the growth of the Atlantic Cruising Club’s Guides to Marinas and incubating the Coastal Communities and Wandering Mariner series), she has produced 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 "EarthFriends"). She created and developed the first, and largest, full-text and image database on complementary medicine, "Alt-HealthWatch", and is an advisor/consultant to firms focused on healthy living and integrative medicine.

Beth received a Doctorate from Columbia University in Educational Technology and New Media, Masters degrees in both Health Education (with a Nutrition focus) and Ed Tech from Columbia, and a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist, and a graduate of James Gordon’s Advanced Mind-Body Professional Training Program and the Natural Gourmet Institute for Food and Health. She is also Past President of the Board of Trustees of Wainwright House, an educational institution focusing on the integration of body, mind and spirit, a former Trustee of the Rye Free Reading Room, a Director of the International Tibetan Medical Association, and a member of the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Associatin and Boating Writers International..

Richard Y. Smith is Publisher of Jerawyn Publishing Inc. and President of Evergreen Capital Partners Inc. JPI is an umbrella company for the Atlantic Cruising Club and other publishing imprints. In addition to marine facilities, JPI focuses on coastal lifestyles, maritime-oriented travel and holistic living. JPI’s activities involve data collection and publication using DatastractTM, a proprietary data input and publishing program that permits the creation, maintenance, and direct publication of extensive databases of both factual and editorial information.

Evergreen Capital Partners Inc. undertakes merchant banking and private capital transactions both as an advisor and as a principal. As an advisor, the firm offers private financing, merger, acquisition, and divesti

Review:

"...will certainly become the bible for New England cruisers... Nearly as indispensable as the boat itself... Exemplary completeness and objectivity." -- Blue Water Sailing; September 2003; page 16

...the indispensable information contained in these guides will ensure stress-free landfalls and fascinating adventures ashore. -- Liza Copeland -- Best-Selling Author of Cruising for Cowards, 4th Ed., Comfortable Cruising, Just Cruising & Still Cruising and Ocean Cruising Club’s Geoff Pack Memorial Award Winner

...... invaluable resource for boaters on the move...abundant photos...impressive range of nearby highlights...perfect for...extended cruises. -- Steve Black, President, Cruising Rally Association and Organizer of the West Marine Bermuda Cup, Atlantic Cup, Caribbean 1500 and Offshore Sailing Symposium

This is a very good effort at a very good price... straightforward (one marina per page) with no advertising. -- Practical Sailor, September 2003; Volume 29, Number 17

Whether you need to fuel up, plug in, pump out, or hunker down, this guide will steer you true. -- Curtis Rindlaub, co-author of the best-seller A Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast, 4th Edition

About this edition

• Publisher: Jerawyn Publishing Inc.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0966402839
• ISBN 13: 9780966402834
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272