About the Authors

Mark and Diana Doyle are authors of the popular cruising guide and electric chart series, Managing the Waterway. They are also Electronics Editors for MadMariner and have written numerous articles for professional and boating publications, including Power Cruising, Sea Magazine, and Latitudes & Attitudes.

Mark retired from high-tech, specializing in color digital imaging with companies such as Kodak, Agfa, and Xerox. He is the founder of Bluewater Yacht Deliveries and holds a 100-ton USCG Master’s License. His first roundtrip of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway was in 1987.

Diana is a former university professor with a Ph.D. from Yale. She holds a 50-ton USCG Master’s License. A lifetime birder and naturalist, she now enjoys sharing her knowledge with cruisers though her writing.

They live with their son, Morgan, juggling time between water and land—surveying future cruising guides, leading seminars, boat show-hopping—and, occasionally, hunkering down in the frigid North to write articles, books & guides.