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ECY offers bareboat and captained charters along Florida's Emerald
Coast. We are based at Sabine Marina on Pensacola Beach.
From here you have access to the best the coast has to offer. This
includes Gulf Shores, Pensacola, Pensacola Beach, Fort Walton Beach,
Destin, Panama City, Port St. Joe, and Apalachicola. You
have access to everything from secluded islands to modern marinas.
We believe that the Emerald Coast of Florida is one of the best
kept sailing secrets in the world! David Liscio, a photojournalist,
based in Nahant, MA, agrees and has written two articles about exploring
the Emerald Coast with his family. One article appeared in
Sail Magazine and the other in Cruising World.
The following passage from David's Sail article describes
our cruising area exceptionally well:
Bound for Northern
Florida’s Riviera, some 250 miles of bayous and barrier dunes that
protect the Panhandle, stretching west roughly from the coastal town
of Carrabelle to the bustling port of Mobile, Alabama. A place where
people practice Southern hospitality, fish obsessively, and sail some
of the country’s least-celebrated yet spectacularly beautiful cruising
waters. Florida locals call the region LA, for Lower Alabama, because
the seamless boundaries are more political than cultural. This is the
Old South, graceful and unhurried, enlivened by a Jimmy Buffett sound
track and mellowed by a lack of pretension. Boiled peanuts, key lime
pie, "BBQ" chicken, cold beer, and tie-dyed sunsets are part of everyday
life, as are the sugar-white sand beaches.
For cruisers, LA
offers countless opportunities to explore uninhabited islands surrounded
by transparent emerald water, both teeming with wildlife, dolphins,
rays, blue crabs, pelicans, herons, hawks, and eagles. Marinas are plentiful
along the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), and civilization is never far
out of reach, but in most bayous it’s possible to anchor overnight in
settings of such natural splendor that docking seems absurd.
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