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    Updated: 15-Jun-2007

The Crew's Recommended Cruising Guides 

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Northern Waterway Guide
Mid-Atlantic Waterway Guide
Southern Waterway Guide

The Waterway Guides
We have used all three Waterway Guides with great success.  They are updated each year and chock-full of useful information for your ICW travels. 

Cruising the Chesapeake: A Gunkholer's Guide
This book by William Schellenberger has been our trusty companion for several Chesapeake explorations.

Claiborne S. Young's Cruising Guides
Mr. Young has a way with food -- and his books are great guides, too.  Claiborne Young's cruising guides mix nautical necessaries with the practicalities of cruising: where to eat, get supplies & fuel, and other pertinent news.  We've never made a bad choice in purchasing his books.

Skipper Bob Publications
If you trust us, trust Skipper Bob.  Several of the entries in his ICW Anchorages Guide are directly from our experience.  Check the contributor's listing if you don't believe me :-)  We use his guide to the Bahamas and the ICW anchorage guide almost daily.

Cruising Guide to the Florida Keys - Frank Papy
Frank Papy was our only guide on our first trip to the Keys -- It's all we needed! 

Cruising Guide to Abaco, Bahamas - Steve Dodge
Steve Dodge's book is the bible for most Abaco cruisers.  We found his information to be helpful and his waypoints deadly accurate.

The Exuma Guide - Stephen J. Pavlidis
Pavlidis' Exuma Guide was superb for our Exuma explorations.  If you only take two books to the Bahamas, take this one and Steve Dodge's book above.   We've also purchased Pavlidis guide to the Turks & Caicos, but haven't applied its knowledge yet

Yachtsman's Guide to the Bahamas - Thomas Daly
If you have room for a third Bahamas guide, this one is a good choice.  It filled in gaps in the other two and validated information found in both.

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