Over the course of two summers, Graham and his family cruised on their Fountaine Pajot catamaran along the eastern seaboard of North America. The section of coastline from Florida to the Chesapeake (effectively the lower half of the East Coast as you look at the map) can be traveled via the “inland” route of the Intracoastal Waterway. This turns out to be an interesting alternative to making the same passage in the open sea, and the catamaran’s shoal draft gave them access to some amazing anchorages.
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Publié le
25/01/2019
Par
Graham Shaw
Numéro :
164
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2019
In the absolutely essential, must-have-on-board book, World Cruising Routes, in the chapter on Atlantic Routes from North America, our friend Jimmy Cornell says, “If adverse conditions persist… continue the voyage south inside the ICW, a solution taken every year by those who have either left the passage to the Caribbean too late or were not fortunate enough to meet the right conditions for this offshore passage.” Well, yes. But, there are also many folks who actually want to sail along the ICW for its own sake. The importance of variety One particular week back last summer I spent a couple of…
