We heartily recommend a visit to Manteo, NC, with is really GOOD restaurants, plentiful shopping and access to multiple historical attractions. And, you simply can’t do better than to coil your lines at A SALTY SOUTHEAST CRUISERS’ NET SPONSOR, Manteo Waterfront Marina. Tell Captain Carl we sent you!!! Cruising News: What a swell place to [...]

Dowry Creek Marina is a fine family owned and family run marina. Off the AICW/Pungo River, north of Belhaven, NC, Dowry Creek Marina has long been a favorite among cruisers, as Jim and Talley attest below. Cruising News: We all tend to remember things being bigger, prettier, and brighter than they really were. Then we [...]

Oriental Marina is located on the eastern banks of inner Oriental Harbor off the Neuse River and is A SALTY SOUTHEAST CRUISERS’ NET SPONSOR! Cruising News: The Oriental Marina in NC continues to provide great accommodations and a wonderful stop. We are so glad that some fine things remain consistent. Here and Now Click Here [...]

Alligator River Marina lies on the western shore of the mouth of the Alligator River/AICW, just north of the swing bridge and southwest of flashing daybeacon #12. Cruising News: The Alligator River Marina is the oasis we all try to find when we’ve been out too long. It is the fertile ground where new friendships [...]

Most boat refrigerators are totally unlike anything you’ve used ashore. These tips will make them less intimidating!

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Harborwalk Marina, A SALTY SOUTHEAST CRUISERS’ NET SPONSOR! is the northwesternmost marina on the downtown Georgetown/Sampit River waterfront. Check out their shiny new, first-rate, shower and laundry building! We were in Georgetown for one week. We anchored our cat in the harbor and dinghied over to Harborwalk Marina to use their laundry and shower facilities. [...]

ALL Cruising Visitors will want to check out this great resource for mariners making a visit to this timeless city!!! http://www.portofstaugustine.com/

Ladys Island Swing Bridge Opening for Sailboat (Beaufort, SC) Captain Bob Schwerzel

We have just published a lengthy, but very interesting article, that reports the city of St. Augustine’s anchorage regulations, put in place as part of this city’s participation in the Florida Pilot Mooring Field Program, are being challenged in Federal court. ALL cruisers even remotely interested in the Florida Anchoring Right Struggle will want to [...]

At the end of Wednesday’s discussion about cell-based mAIS – which only works via the Internet instead of direct VHF radio transmissions — I mentioned how I’d set up a real AIS receiver in my lab to forward real AIS target info to those same Internet services. In fact most all the actual AIS targets shown in those screen shots came through my basement. The set up turned out to be very easy and cost nothing as I already had an AIS receiver, a computer, and an Internet connection. The key is the free program AISdispatcher seen in the foreground above, which is offered by AIS Hub data sharing center. That’s their Web site in the background, showing the data I’m contributing along with that of other volunteer stations. But there are lots of holes in the coverage and I’m hoping that more coastal residents and particularly marine businesses will volunteer, and I think that the new mAIS concept could make the effort especially worthwhile… 

OK fellow cruisers, let me warn you in advance. This is a long, complicated posting, but it’s well worth the attention of ANYONE who is even vaguely interested in the issue of Florida Anchoring Rights. Read on! Back in April (2012), I was given permission to excerpt from an article contained in “Sandy’s St. Augustine [...]

May 9, 2012 The Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net (SSECN), SURVICE Engineering, and EarthNC, Inc. announce an exciting new tri-partnership that will provide SSECN users with the benefit of 25 million soundings acquired and processed with the ARGUS (Autonomous Remote Global Underwater Surveillance) system. The Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net is the FIRST web site to offer [...]

Captains Jim and Talley Powell included some really neat photos with their recent posting concerning a visit to Swanquarter, NC, off southwestern Pamlico Sound (see http://cruisersnet.net/?p=87218). This port of call remains one of the most isolated on the Tar Heel coastline, with only one small marina (mostly geared towards commercial fishing craft) and very little [...]

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There’s never a dull moment at this SALTY SOUTHEAST CRUISERS’ NET SPONSOR!!! “Mothers Day”  is this Sunday  Keep the gift shop in mind for your unique shopping needs.  I have just ordered some new jewelry that I guarantee will get you gold stars from your favorite Mom. Now that we have had some rain which [...]

At first Boat Beacon may look like yet another iPad or iPhone app for viewing online AIS tracking services like ShipFinder, but in fact it’s a very new and slightly disconcerting form of AIS transponder. In other words that “Panbo BoatBeaconTest” target seen above is not the test transponder I sometimes run in the lab but simply my iPad running Boat Beacon and using its online connection to send my position, MMSI, and “boat” data to a central server where it’s also getting the regular AIS data for those various vessels in the Bay. The concept doesn’t really have a name yet — except maybe for mobile AIS or mAIS, as I’ll get to — but I think it’s going be huge, and also confusing… 

May 9, 2012 The Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net (SSECN), SURVICE Engineering, and EarthNC, Inc. announce an exciting new tri-partnership that will provide SSECN users with the benefit of 25 million soundings acquired and processed with the ARGUS (Autonomous Remote Global Underwater Surveillance) system. The Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net is the FIRST web site to offer [...]

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9, 2012 Salty Southeast Cruisers Net, SURVICE Engineering and EarthNC Form Tri-Partnership to Bring Revolutionary Sounding Data to the Cruising Community! The Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net (SSECN), SURVICE Engineering, and EarthNC, Inc. announce an exciting new tri-partnership that will provide SSECN users with the benefit of 25 million soundings [...]

It’s easy to peruse ARGUS data on our Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net “Chart View” pages. Below, we provide several examples of how to make use of this neat, new tool. It might be a good idea to print out the rest of this posting, so you can easily follow the step by step instructions below. [...]

Make a dinghy bailer from an empty jug instead of having it take up space in the trash.

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