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Boat Insurance for Cruisers: A Plain-English Guide
Boat insurance for cruisers works nothing like your car or home policy. The definitive guide to policies, coverage, and shopping.
The Real Costs of Owning a Boat: What the Listing Price Doesn’t Tell You
That listing price is only the beginning. Here are the boat ownership costs many buyers don’t see coming.
Boat Documents Organizer
Marine product: A water-resistant document organizer designed specifically for boat papers — holds 400 pages with room for your Certificate of Documentation, registration, insurance policy, surveys, hurricane plan, captain’s license, radio licenses, and more. Includes a zippered passport pouch and pre-printed checklists for U.S. cruising and international clearances. Breeze through marina check-ins, USCG boardings, and foreign port clearances.
Storing Food Without Refrigeration
Book: Confidently store fresh food and cook real meals on your boat without a working refrigerator — fruits, vegetables, cheese, eggs, meat, milk, and more. 60+ meal ideas, a 4-day sample plan, and proven techniques. Also useful for camping, RVing, and off-grid living.
Weather Basics For Boaters
Book: A practical, easy-to-understand guide to using weather apps like Windy and PredictWind to make confident go/no-go decisions on the water. Read past the overview, find the layers and data most boaters never see, and translate forecasts into what you’ll actually feel.
Maine and New England Cruising Guide
Cruising guide: Quick reference for New England from Cape Cod to Eastport, Maine — anchorages and mooring fields by protection direction, storm holes, free docks, fuel, propane, pumpouts, dog walking, bridges, inlets, and haulouts. Buzzards Bay, the Vineyard, Nantucket, Boston, Casco Bay, Penobscot Bay, MDI, and Down East in one book.
Florida Gulf Coast Cruising Guide
Cruising guide: Quick reference for the Florida Gulf Coast from Dry Tortugas to Mobile, AL — anchorages by protection direction, all bridges, inlets, free docks, fuel, propane, pumpouts, dog walking, and haulouts. SW Florida, Tampa Bay, the Big Bend, Forgotten Coast, Emerald Coast, and Mobile Bay in one book.
Chesapeake Bay Cruising Guide
Cruising guide: Quick reference for the Chesapeake Bay from Norfolk to the C&D Canal, both Eastern and Western Shores, all rivers including the Potomac to DC — anchorages by protection direction, bridges and ferries, free docks, fuel, water, pumpouts, groceries, and haulouts.
Florida Keys & Florida Loop Cruising Guide
The Boat Galley Florida Keys & Florida Loop Cruising Guide is the cockpit-friendly cruising guide covering the Florida Keys, SW Florida, and the Okeechobee Waterway — the entire Florida Loop (also called the South Florida Loop or Smuggler’s Run) in a single book. Organized by location in a north-to-south sequence (or by mile marker on […]