You'll find a lot of East coast cruisers have this book on board. We used ours everyday on our trip from FL to NC. If you are cruising on the ICW and have only one book, this would be the book to have. It not only contains all the charts for the ICW, but it has information on bridge heights and openings. It also has general information about marinas and anchorages along the way.

This is another useful book for ICW cruisers. We almost wore our copy out on our trip from FL to NC. It is organized by mile marker. It contains many colorful facts about the areas along the ICW, but highlights the important information, like bridges, anchorages and marinas.

Every cruiser on the Atlantic ICW needs the latest copy of the Skipper Bob books. We used this book, and Skipper Bob's Marinas Along the Intracoastal Waterway every day on our trip from FL to NC. They tell you what anchorages and marinas are available, plus their characteristics and tips for cruising the ICW.

This series of books covers the Southeast coastal waters and compliments the other books. The feature we like about these guide books is that they cover areas that are not close to the ICW, like New Bern, NC.

Each guide book has a corresponding chart book that contains NOAA charts with marina, anchorage, bridge and other information added. We used the Coastal Charts for Cruising the Florida Keys and North Carolina chart books as our main charts on our trip from FL to NC.

In addition to these wonderful books, Claiborne Young runs the Salty Southeast Cruisers Net. This website contains a wealth of information for boaters in the Southeast. It even has free videos of how to travel on ICW trouble spots.

This excellent book should be read or reread anytime you think you about putting off cruising. It explains that there may be far fewer necessities for cruising than you think. It also has lots of ideas on making the most of what you already have.

This book also tells you how to go cruising. Some of the chapters didn't apply to us since we already owned a boat, but there is some good advice and some laughs too.

If you have a diesel engine on your boat, this book is a must. It's written in a way that's easy to understand and it got me going when we had to be towed to Oriental, because of a bad starting solenoid.

I consider this book a must for any boat owner. When we were in the boat yard, at Duck Creek, Jim told us we should read this book from cover to cover and then go back and read it again.

This is another good book to have. It is not as complete as the above Nigel Calder book, but it has some useful things, like illustrations showing how to tie some useful knots.

We really enjoyed this book. Although it talks about Seraffyn's 50 day passage from Japan to Canada, there are lots of tips for any boater, even if you never leave the marina. One example of this is the part that talks about the WAG Bags. After reading this book we have started using these in our marine toilet while at the marina. This way we don't have to use our holding tank or walk to the marina bathrooms in the middle of the night or in pouring rain.

You may never plan to sail in a storm, but this book tells you everything you ever need to know in case you are ever unexpectedly caught in a storm.

This is a very useful book if you own an old fiberglass boat, like Questeria. We refer to this book over and over as we attempt to fix our deck leaks.

We recently replaced the above book with this one. It contains the complete copy of several of the Don Casey books into one larger book, including Sailboat Hull and Deck Repair and Sailboat Refinishing , which we were about to purchase. There are several other interesting chapters, like Sailboat Electrics Simplified and Canvas and Sail Repair.

Here is another great book from Don Casey. This book is well worth the price.

This excellent book was a gift from Harry on our trip from FL to NC. There are some great recipes here.

This is a good book for learning how to trim your sails.

I didn't have a clue about repairing the Honda outboard on our dinghy. This book has a wealth of information on repairing and maintaining all Honda outboards.