Posted in Featured Maps, Special Events on Aug 30th, 2007
While we were busy photographing the Offshore Super Series Races at Orange Beach, Alabama our home waters of Destin played host to the annual Emerald Coast Poker Run. Part of the festivities (although not an official part of the poker run itself), is live action filming of the go-fast boats from a helicopter. [...]
Posted in Charts and Maps, Featured Maps, destinations on Aug 26th, 2007
We found a nice little Google My Map showing boat ramps in the Cape Coral and Fort Myers area of Southwest Florida. We appreciate offidle.com - Southwest Florida Boating Enthusiasts for making this available as a Google My Map. Since it’s a My Map, we can show it below with our TakItWithMe [...]
Posted in Charts and Maps, Featured Maps, Trips and Guides, destinations on Aug 9th, 2007
Boating World had a great article on “Great Escapes” in the September 2007 issue. We’ve put together a Google Earth Map to help you find each island. Click on any of the placemarks for links for additional online information like local maps, photos, videos, and websites.
We’ve also included links to the online versions of our EarthNC Marine Charts for Google Earth for each location. Complete Google Earth charts with depth soundings and contours are available in our EarthNC Plus chart system.
Posted in Block Island, Featured Maps, Rhode Island, Trips and Guides, videos on Aug 8th, 2007
While working on an upcoming EarthNC guide to island cruising destinations, we came across a great new blog call Island Spirit Sailing Adventures. Bloggers Hayden and Raydeen have done a great job writing about living aboard their Island Packet 35 in Block Island, Rhode Island this summer.
Better yet, they’ve captured some wonderful photos, [...]
Posted in Featured Maps, Special Events on Aug 4th, 2007
Mark your Calendars for August 16th - 19th as the Offshore Super Series Racing comes to Orange Beach, Alabama. Offshore Super Series features the fastest, most powerful racing boats on the water against each other over a roughly 6 mile circuit.
Action is kept close to the beach, or take your boat out behind the [...]
Posted in Featured Maps, Poker Runs, Special Events, Trips and Guides on Jul 29th, 2007
The Emerald Coast Poker Run is one of the nation’s largest with 400+ boats cruising ports of call between Destin and Pensacola, Florida. To help participants and spectators, we’ve produced a special Google My Map which you can view below in Google Maps showing all the stops, special no-wake areas, and the larger [...]
Posted in Charts and Maps, Featured Maps, TakItWithMe, Trips and Guides, gps on Jul 18th, 2007
While developing our new TakItWithMe Google My Maps to GPS service, we ran across a great Google My Map of the Trent Severn Waterway produced by TheWaterway.ca. The Trent Severn waterway links eastern Lake Ontario with Lake Huron via Georgian Bay. The route is 240 miles long, includes 44 locks (many of them [...]