The Intracoastal Waterway: Norfolk to Miami, A Cockpit Cruising Handbook [Spiral-bound]

Jan Moeller (Author), Bill Moeller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1996

The only one-volume guide to traversing the entire protected East Coast waterway, "The Intracoastal Waterway, Norfolk to Miami: A Cockpit Cruising Handbook is updated to reflect changes in channels and shoreside facilities. Offering unique, mile-by-mile descriptions and accurate navigation advice, the Moellers describe more than 300 marinas and nearly 100 opening bridges, and provide concise instructions for negotiating more than 100 tested anchorages.

"In our opinion, the easiest-to-use guide to bridges, marinas, anchorages, waterway junctions, towns, and so on."--"SAIL

"Unlike any other publication, its format is simply a mile-by-mile listing of every bridge, anchorage, marina, shoal, and obstruction. . . . It's the best [money] you'll ever spend."--"Practical Sailor

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"... indispensable... Don't do the ICW without it." -- Powerboat Reports

"In our opinion, the easiest-to-use guide." -- Sail

"Unlike any other publication, its format is simply a mile-by-mile listing of every bridge, anchorage, marina, shoal and obstruction... It's the best [money] you'll ever spend." -- Practical Sailor

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"The easiest-to-use guide to bridges, marinas, anchorages, waterway junctions, and towns."--SAIL

Since 1979, the piloting guide of choice for the Intracoastal Waterway

Here is the ultimate guide to the 1,094-mile waterway between Norfolk and Miami. Frustrated by existing guides, Jan and Bill Moeller created this compact, mile-by-mile format for use at the helm. Easy to reference and to correlate with nautical charts, this handbook is now the accepted standard for boaters on the Intracoastal Waterway--tested, refined, and improved with each edition.

"Unlike any other publication, its format is simply a mile-by-mile listing of every bridge, anchorage, marina, shoal, and obstruction. . . . It's the best [money] you'll ever spend."--Practical Sailor

"A superior cockpit cruising handbook. Probably the most used book in cockpits up and down the 1,094-mile Norfolk to Miami waterway."--Sunday Capital (Annapolis, MD)

Indispensable. . . . Don't do the ICW without it."--Powerboat Reports --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 152 pages
• Publisher: Intl Marine Pub; 4th edition (September 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070429863
• ISBN-13: 978-0070429864
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,506,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is extremely useless, November 6, 2003

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Kevin A. Rogers "captkev" (Toronto) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Intracoastal Waterway: Norfolk to Miami, A Cockpit Cruising Handbook (Spiral-bound)

We bought this book in summer 2002 for our trip down the ICW that fall. We bought it based on the fact it was a "Fourth Edition" ! It is SO out of date it is not funny, and in fact could be dangerous to rely on it, or at least an inconvenience. It might be somewhat useful if they updated it. After using Skipper Bob's Anchorages book, and his Marina guide, (which combined, cost less than the Moeller book) I would say these are the bible of ICW travel. They provide mile by mile anchorage info and rankings, and marina info such as types of fuel, price, slip prices, etc. VERY USEFUL and up to date info. They are updated every year, with changes to anchoranges/marina info submitted by the author, as well as the readers.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Summary Book, March 19, 2002

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John D. Winter "jdwinter4" (Mooresville, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Intracoastal Waterway: Norfolk to Miami, A Cockpit Cruising Handbook (Spiral-bound)

This is an excellent book for quick reference of your trip. I use it alot in the cockpit, but find more detail would be better. The layout is good for going north to south, but I find the backwards reading (South to North) a little difficult to follow. I recommend this as a companion book along with others, but not as a stand alone book unless you are the casual boater (weekender)

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Totaly worthless book with no information not on a chart, January 9, 2006

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Vern Bauch - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Intracoastal Waterway: Norfolk to Miami (Spiral-bound)

This book example: ABC marina turn right at bouy "1".
End of story, no info on marina size, what to do, facilities etc.
No idea what anything is like or what the location of the marinas, etc.
Another example: Anchorage to right 0.3 mile off ICW channel.
That is all in info provided.