Icw Moving Community
Blog post 30May17 A Moving Community along the ICW
And article for Proptalk
Each day, ICW cruisers sit on our decks and docks and get to know today's set of neighbors, knowing that tomorrow will have a different set of neighbors, but we'll meet each of these neighbors again, somewhere along the waterway. There's a whole community of people moving up and down the east coast every autumn and every spring. We’re a community because we love boating and welcome other boaters with open arms. All of us boaters have heard the stories of the adventures our fellows have along the ICW. We love hearing other’s stories and sharing our own.
On our happy little boat, ”In No Hurry”, we dropped our anchor for an overnight in Boca Raton, Florida. There were …show more content…
The Captain of our fine vessel works better with paper resources, while I, First Mate, work better with electronic information. For the sake of redundancy, make sure you have both paper and electronic available. We have a navigation guidebook put out by a couple who’ve traveled quite a bit and there plenty of other books available. Facebook has multiple pages with wide ranging information. The Waterway Guide is available on the internet. Active Captain is another resource many of us use. A valuable means of choosing your resources is to listen to the community. They’ll not just talk about what’s good or bad, they’ll discuss why they like this resource or that one and you can get an understanding of what you’ll work best with. The community is a resource too. We each need to listen to what others have to say, take it all in, then make our own …show more content…
They followed us through the difficult waters of Georgia and South Carolina. We’ve been honored to offer what little experience we have and welcome they’re good company. They report appreciating cruising with someone who’s done this before. In a few days, our journeys will diverge, they’ll go on and we have to pause for a few days, but they are now neighbors. Cruisers try to keep in touch, however loosely, and we may not see a neighbor for a year or two, but, then, we’ll pull into a marina or anchorage and say “Isn’t that so-and-so” and end up having sunset cocktails
And article for Proptalk
Each day, ICW cruisers sit on our decks and docks and get to know today's set of neighbors, knowing that tomorrow will have a different set of neighbors, but we'll meet each of these neighbors again, somewhere along the waterway. There's a whole community of people moving up and down the east coast every autumn and every spring. We’re a community because we love boating and welcome other boaters with open arms. All of us boaters have heard the stories of the adventures our fellows have along the ICW. We love hearing other’s stories and sharing our own.
On our happy little boat, ”In No Hurry”, we dropped our anchor for an overnight in Boca Raton, Florida. There were …show more content…
The Captain of our fine vessel works better with paper resources, while I, First Mate, work better with electronic information. For the sake of redundancy, make sure you have both paper and electronic available. We have a navigation guidebook put out by a couple who’ve traveled quite a bit and there plenty of other books available. Facebook has multiple pages with wide ranging information. The Waterway Guide is available on the internet. Active Captain is another resource many of us use. A valuable means of choosing your resources is to listen to the community. They’ll not just talk about what’s good or bad, they’ll discuss why they like this resource or that one and you can get an understanding of what you’ll work best with. The community is a resource too. We each need to listen to what others have to say, take it all in, then make our own …show more content…
They followed us through the difficult waters of Georgia and South Carolina. We’ve been honored to offer what little experience we have and welcome they’re good company. They report appreciating cruising with someone who’s done this before. In a few days, our journeys will diverge, they’ll go on and we have to pause for a few days, but they are now neighbors. Cruisers try to keep in touch, however loosely, and we may not see a neighbor for a year or two, but, then, we’ll pull into a marina or anchorage and say “Isn’t that so-and-so” and end up having sunset cocktails