Cruising South -- What To Expect Along The Icw [Paperback]

Joan Healy starting her boating endeavors with a small canoe and it soon turned into a long time love affair with boats and boating.

Like most of us, she started in a small boat and learned along the way, finally achieving her long time dream of liveaboard cruising.

Joan has written this highly illustrated book to help the first time Snow Birds understand the ICW and what to expect from this diverse, ever changing boater's highway to the south.

This is not a cruising guide book. You will not find listings of the best anchorages, lovely restaurants or fancy marinas. In these pages you will find what it will be like to make the trip the first time. You will learn what to expect, what you will see, and often, what you should avoid.

If you are considering this trip for the first time or the twentieth, you own it to yourself to read Cruising South. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Joan Healy didn't come from a long line of boaters. No one in her immediate family owned a boat, so her boating experience was minimal and confined to invitations from friends. It wasn't until her youngest child was in high school that she and her husband purchased a canoe and a true love affair began.

When she and her husband purchased a sailboat, there was more to learn. Joan took classes in sailing, and as her knowledge grew, so did her enjoyment. Soon she was teaching both seamanship, piloting and enjoying every spare moment aboard.

This is her first nautical book, and with it she hopes to share some of the knowledge she has gained during her years of cruising the ICW from the Erie Barge Canal to Palm Beach, Florida. AUTHOR COMMENTS: Don't deny it, because I know better. Time and time again you've whispered to yourself, Someday I'll go cruising. The words just tumble out. Before I owned a boat, I said it almost daily. At the time I had no knowledge of seamanship and never imagined it could happen, but over the years I acquired both a boat and some fundamental boating education. I cló/