Welcome to Thriving on the ICW
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Welcome to Thriving on the ICW , a nuts & bolts guide to successfully navigating the Intracoastal Waterway. To access the guide, click on the tab for each of the chapters in the table of contents. Depending on your browser, you may first have to click on the "menu" icon to get the table of contents to appear. Alternatively, you will also find a table of contents with links to each chapter at the bottom of this page and at the end of each chapter. This guide is a work in progress. It's still in an early draft form; the text needs editing, some of the figures are a bit amateurish, and we have inserted notes where photos or illustrations are still needed on specific topics. (Feel free to contact us if you have a photo that may be useful.) We are posting the draft on this blog site to make it easily accessible and to solicit constructive feedback from experienced ICW cruisers and those who aspire to cruise down "The Ditch" someday. The blog format makes it e