The Atlantic Cruising Club takes the guesswork out of putting ashore with the release of 7th Edition, Volume 1: Atlantic Cruising Club's Guide to New England Marinas. Facts, Facts, and more Facts. Absolutely everything you need to know to decide where to tie up for a night or a week,packed into the only objective consumers' guide to marinas and marine facilities.Rates, Ratings, and Reviews.
For most boaters cruising is one part fun, one-part adventure, one part stress, one part food and one part character building - a pretty exhilarating and exhausting combination. So, at the end of the day, all you really want to do is tie-up, kick back and relax. If you're away from home waters that often means finding a slip or mooring. But a marina stay can be expensive - sometimes as expensive as a nice hotel room - and a lot harder to leave if it's not what you expected. To choose the "right" marina, you can spend hours on the phone quizzing dockmasters or rely on those little chartlets in the cruising guides or trust the veracity of the marina ads. Or you can turn to the Atlantic Cruising Club's Guides to Marinas - complete with bound-in searchable CD-ROMs. For more than a decade, the Atlantic Cruising Club has been providing highly detailed, objective marina information to the East Coast boating consumer.
The latest Guide - the Seventh Edition - has now grown to six regional volumes covering Bar Harbor, Maine to Padre Island, Texas - and is being published sequentially over the next eight months. The first regional volume, the Atlantic Cruising Club's Guide to New England Marinas is at the printer and the second regional volume, the Atlantic Cruising Club's Guide to Long Island Sound Marinas, will be released in mid July.
These are consumers' guides - marina advertising is neither solicited nor accepted and there is no charge to the marinas for inclusion.The new edition has been expanded to an 8 ½" x 11" format to accommodate the addition of both photographs and 50% more information than in the Sixth Edition -- up to 300 facts on each marina. Every facility is now rated on three scales - 1-5 Bells for cruiser services, 1-2 Travelifts for boatyard services and a Sunset for very special places. The "Review" section is comprised of three densely packed paragraphs (Setting, Marina Notes, and Notable), each chock full of even more useful information.
Marina information covers contact info, marina operations, rates, services, facilities, megayacht services, navigation information, boat supplies (chandleries, propane, ice, CNG, bait), and boatyard capabilities (rates, certifications, specialties, etc.). The very detailed "what's near by" sections cover restaurants (names & price ranges, too), lodgings (rates), recreation (from golf and tennis to swimming and bowling), entertainment (cinemas to museums, tours, and live theater) , provisioning (including the nearest chain supermarkets, gourmet shops, farmers' markets, fishmongers, etc.), general services (from bookstores to hardware stores to full-service laundries), transportation (rental cars, courtesy cars, airports and limos, cabs, bike rentals, water taxis, ferry services, local busses, rail, etc.) and medical services (from 911 to hospitals to massage therapists to vets).
The Atlantic Cruising Club's Guides to Marinas are delivered in both print and CD-ROM formats (in one package). Each volume includes over 1,500 photographs - one of each marina in the Book, and 4-9 full-color photos of each on the CD-ROM. The easy-to-use CD-ROM allows boaters to search on over 100 fields—location, rates, ratings, reported depths, etc., etc., etc - and it stores in a sturdy clear vinyl sleeve in the back of the book.
Both the Book and CD-ROM have been designed with easy navigation in mind. A Regional Map shows all 230 marinas covered in the ACC Guide to New England Marinas and 12 sub-region maps locate the marinas in a particular area. On the CD-ROM, the map is in full-color
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说实话,当我拿到这本厚厚的指南时,我有点担心它会过于学术化或者充满了晦涩的专业术语,毕竟“指南”这个词有时候意味着死板的规则堆砌。然而,这本手册的叙事风格却出人意料的亲切和富有画面感。它在描绘马萨诸塞州科德角(Cape Cod)那一带的锚地时,简直像是在写一篇优美的散文。它会告诉你,在某个特定的傍晚,当夕阳洒在沙滩上时,哪个海湾的景色最值得驻足一晚,而不是仅仅告诉你水深多少尺。这种对“航海体验”的重视,让我在计划行程时,不再只是为了到达目的地而赶路,而是开始享受沿途的每一个停靠点。我记得有一次,我完全按照书中的建议,避开了一个热门港口,转而选择了一个它推荐的、相对偏远的静谧小港。结果呢?我收获了三天没有船只噪音的完美夜晚,清晨被海鸟的叫声唤醒,那种宁静是任何豪华游艇俱乐部都无法提供的。这种发掘“隐藏宝石”的能力,正是这本指南的精髓所在,它教会你如何像一个本地人一样去“阅读”新英格兰的海域。
评分我对这本书的评价,必须从其附带的数字资料包谈起。要知道,在海上,印刷品总有其局限性,而这本书的配套CD-ROM(虽然我更习惯使用现在的USB版本)简直是把这份指南的实用性提升到了一个全新的维度。它包含的不仅仅是所有港口信息的电子版,更关键的是那些高分辨率的、由专业测绘师重新绘制的进港引导图。这些图纸清晰度远超一般的电子海图软件上的简略显示,特别是在能见度低的情况下,那些关键的航标和水下障碍物的图示,简直是肉眼可见的清晰。更让我惊喜的是,它提供了一套可以导入我船上导航系统的航点文件,这些航点是基于这本书中推荐的“最佳入港路径”精心制作的,而不是官方的通用航线。这意味着,我可以直接将推荐的“安全航道”加载到我的GPS中进行实时比对。这种从纸面信息到数字化操作的无缝对接,极大地增强了我在未知水域的信心,让原本充满未知风险的航行,变得更加可控和精准。
评分这本书的实用性超乎我的想象,尤其是它对不同季节航行条件的细致区分。许多指南只提供一个标准化的描述,但新英格兰的海况是瞬息万变的,春季和秋季的挑战是完全不同的。这本书在这方面做得极为出色。例如,在描述缅因州海岸线时,它专门辟出一章来讲解五月和十月需要特别注意的暗礁和快速降温的天气系统。我根据它的建议,提前购买了一种特定型号的防冰剂,这在一次突如其来的早秋降温中,完美地保护了我的船用水系统。此外,它对于淡水补给点的筛选标准也极其严苛,它不仅仅列出“有水龙头”的地点,还会根据水压、水质的可靠性进行分级评价。对我这种喜欢远离人群、自行维护船只的人来说,这种细致入微的“可靠性评分”比什么都重要。我敢说,光是避免了两次因水压不足而白跑一趟的窘境,这本书的价值就已经回本了。它真正考虑到了船主在实际操作中会遇到的每一个痛点。
评分这本书简直是新英格兰水手们的福音!从我第一次翻开它,我就被它那种详尽入微的描述给深深吸引住了。它不仅仅是一本简单的码头名录,更像是一位经验丰富的老船长在耳边细细为你讲解每一个港湾的脾气秉性。拿罗德岛的纽波特(Newport)来说吧,我原以为我对那里的停泊点已经很熟悉了,但这本书里竟然提到了几个隐藏在小海湾深处的、只有本地人才知道的浮动码头信息,连带着每个泊位的具体吃水限制和潮汐影响下的航道变化都标注得清清楚楚。更别提它对于进入那些以复杂航道著称的缅因州小岛的指导,那简直是救命稻草。作者对当地的海洋气象模式有着深刻的理解,让你在计划行程时,心里对突如其来的大雾或者午后的阵风都有了预判。我特别欣赏它在描述每个码头服务设施时,那种务实的态度——不是空泛地写“设施齐全”,而是精确到 Wi-Fi 信号强度、洗衣房是否提供烘干服务,甚至连附近哪家杂货店的龙虾最新鲜都给指出来了。对于我们这些希望在船上多住几天的航海者来说,这些“生活细节”远比一张官方地图来得更有价值。它成功地把枯燥的导航信息,转化成了一份充满探索乐趣的旅行指南。
评分要说这本书的组织结构,那绝对是匠心独运。它没有采用传统的按州或按字母顺序排列的方式,而是非常巧妙地根据“航行难度系数”和“补给便利程度”进行了区域划分,这对于制定跨区域的长途航线非常有帮助。比如,它把康涅狄格河下游到长岛湾东部的区域归类为“高密度商业航道区”,并详细分析了如何与那些巨型货轮安全共用水道的策略,包括最佳的会车角度和无线电沟通的最佳话术。随后,它无缝过渡到罗德岛外围那些需要精确计算潮汐才能进入的浅水港口,并提供了专门的航线图表补充说明。这种逻辑性的编排,使得我在规划一次横跨新英格兰的“探险之旅”时,可以非常流畅地在不同类型的航行环境中切换思维,而不需要不断地在不同章节之间跳转查阅。这种“情景化”的分类,充分体现了编撰者对水手日常决策流程的深刻洞察力,极大地提升了阅读和使用的效率,避免了翻阅时的挫败感。
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