This electronic edition is in no way intended to supplant but is rather meant to complement the print version, which is still updated and published annually and is available from our STORE as well as at most Florida marinas and also at many regional bookstores -- especially those that feature boating and/or water-oriented publications. PLUS, we now offer the print version as a downloadable e-book for those who prefer to read it on screen.
Perhaps more important is our new Interactive version, which not only contains more (and more up-to-date) information than we could ever publish in print but also makes it available in an easier to access format: Cruising Guide narratives to put everything in a cruising perspective; Sketch Charts to relate the locations visually; and in alphabetical lists, to make specific information easier to find. And ALL of it is cross-linked for quick reference. We hope you find this site useful and welcome your comments and suggestions on ways we might improve it
If you are familiar with our print version, you should feel right at home here as we have included (and tried to improve access to) ALL of the helpful information that has made our publication so useful to Florida’s boating people for the past 29 years. If you are new to FCD, please take a moment to check out our “What’s Happening” page; it will help you to get to know us better and also introduce you to some of the features that make our Directory so special. (PS: “Old Friends” may find some interesting info there, also!)
WELCOME to the on-line version of the only cruising guide produced in Florida, by Florida boating people for the benefit of ALL who cruise our beautiful and ever so varied waters.
And now, a word from our sponsors. Remember, it is our advertisers who make the FCD available in all its forms; without them we simply couldn’t exist. But unlike TV or newspapers, where you often have to look at, if not really pay attention to, ads that are of little interest to you, our FCD advertisers all provide goods and/or services that we boating folk so often NEED. So we hope you will read the ads and urge you to patronize our advertisers at every opportunity. They certainly will appreciate it. And WE will appreciate it if you let them know you learned about their establishment via the FCD. Thanks!
