Welcome to Thriving on the ICW

 



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 easy to edit and update on the fly. But, as it turns out, this blogging platform is filled with bugs and quirks. So the formatting is oddly inconsistent in places. We apologize for this. Sometimes the most user-friendly tools are the most difficult to adapt to specific applications. Once it has gone through some revisions, we hope to release it as an e-book.

We'd appreciate feedback from the cruising community. Rather than fielding editorial suggestions from the Comments section of each individual chapter, we ask that you submit a feedback form or email your comments to adventurebluesailing@gmail.com.

This work has benefitted from the efforts of many people. Our sincere thanks to Ted Arisaka, Ann Beardsley, and Renee Schramm for providing editorial suggestions. Their collective cruising experience is vast and they are all sharp editors. We can't thank them enough for their expert advice.

Thanks for your interest. We hope to meet y'all out on the waterway someday. If you ever see us in an anchorage or a marina, don't be afraid to stop by and say hello.

Thrive on!

-Damon & Janet



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