All-Chesapeake Bay Cruising Guide
Cruise the Chesapeake with Confidence and Clarity
The Chesapeake Bay is stunning—but it’s also complex. Between winding rivers, shifting shoals, and dozens of creeks and anchorages, planning your next move can eat up hours. This Chesapeake Bay cruising guide gives you exactly what you need to cruise smarter and enjoy more time on the water.
Whether you’re sailing the Eastern Shore, exploring quiet backwaters, or heading upriver, this guide helps you find the best anchorages, marinas, and services—without flipping through pages of dense text. Quickly see depths, protection, fuel stops, pet access, free docks, haulouts, grocery stores, and more.
Stay safe with navigation alerts for currents, shoaling, and bridge clearances—plus bridge opening times and contact info at a glance.
Updated April 2024, this Chesapeake cruising guide is built for real-world boating: clear, accurate, and easy to use.
If you’re still piecing together info by reading through pages of text, you’re wasting precious cruising time. Let this Chesapeake Bay boating guide do the legwork for you.
Why It’s Different • Answers at a Glance
This guide is organized first by what you need—fuel, anchorages, bridges—then by location, making it faster to find what you’re looking for. No lengthy descriptions and no charts—just clear tables to pinpoint the information you need without delay.
How to Use • Quick Steps for Finding What You Need
Designed to answer your questions quickly, this guide makes navigating the Chesapeake stress-free:
- Go to the Right Section: Tabs help you find what you need—fuel, anchorages, bridges, or facilities.
- Find Your Column: Look for details like wind protection, bridge heights, or marina services.
- Locate the ✔: Organized clockwise from Norfolk, including all major rivers, each ✔ pinpoints the resource closest to your location.
Anchorage Names: All anchorage names are Active Captain names, which can be overlaid on any navigation app.
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Spiral-Bound Print Guide: Built for life in the cockpit with bright tabs, waterproof and tear-resistant pages, and a glare-resistant matte finish. The spiral binding lies flat for hands-free use.
This guide keeps essential information at your fingertips.
Made in USA • Built to Last • Environmentally Friendly
Designed in the USA; printed in the USA on American-made recyclable synthetic paper using environmentally-friendly soy-based inks at a facility that is completely wind-powered. Minimal packaging. Tough enough to handle life on a boat, it won’t tear, degrade, or smear, even in humid conditions or if you have sunscreen on your hands.
