We love the Waterway Guide. We are not sponsored or affiliated, but we use it all the time, and it is our primary go-to for all our bridge, navigation, marina, and destination information!
We want to promote them to you, our readers. Waterway Guide has both a website and an App for iPhone and Android. There is a free version that gives you basic information, however the true value comes once you sign up ($55 per year or $9.99 per month). You will get access to a wealth of ACCURATE information! How high is that bridge? Waterway Guide will tell you! Does your next marina have fuel and pumpout? Waterway Guide will tell you! What is the approach depth at the marina? Waterway Guide will tell you! What’s the bottom like at that anchorage? Waterway Guide will tell you! What should you do in town? Waterway Guide will tell you! Is that marina open or closed after the storm? Waterway Guide will tell you! Whatever your nautical information needs, Waterway Guide will tell you!
We also like to have their printed guides on board because they offer an easy way to find marinas and on-shore adventures. Updated every year and conveniently published by section, the printed Waterway Guides are great guides to have on board.
The entire series includes Northern, Chesapeake, Mid-Atlantic, Southern, Bahamas, Florida Keys, Gulf Coast, Cuba, and Great Lakes volumes 1 & 2 !
Waterway Guides also offers the Skipper Bob Guides, long a staple resource of both Cruisers and Loopers. Waterway Guides continues to publish the Skipper Bob’s series. Anchorages, Bahamas Bound, America’s Great Loop, Chicago to Mobile, Gulf Coast, New York Canal System, Rideau & Richelieu Canals, Trent-Severn Waterway, Marinas along the ICW.
We recommend one other printed guide: Quimby’s Cruising Guide. Like the Waterway Guide, it is an essential resource for cruising the inland rivers, providing information on routes, marinas, and what to do in town as you cruise them, including the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, Tenn-Tom Waterway, and Gulf Intracostal Waterway.
Quimby’s is separate from Waterway Guide, but it is an excellent companion for Loopers or anyone cruising the inland rivers as they are experts on the Inland Rivers.
Even if you don’t choose to subscribe, the Free content on their website is an excellent resource. They are genuinely dedicated to the cruising community! Check out the Waterway Guide and Quimby’s today!
Do you rely on the Waterway Guide? Which is more valuable to you, the online or printed versions?
Let us know in the comments below! 
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