Yankee Magazine

ESSEX RIVER CRUISES & CHARTERS WAS PICKED AS BEST OF THE REGION IN 1996 and 2002 BY THE EDITORS OF YANKEE MAGAZINE’S TRAVEL GUIDE TO NEW ENGLAND.

Essex River Cruises and Charters included in listing of best restaurants, lodging, attractions, museums, and shopping in New England.

Essex, MA – August 26, 2002 – Essex River Cruises and Charters is featured as an “Editors’ Pick” in the 2002 Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England. ERC&C was included among regional restaurants, lodging, attractions, museums, and shops that, according to the travel experts at Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide, are not to be missed.

For over 30 years, Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England has been the most widely distributed and best-selling guide in the six-state region, providing readers with a comprehensive vacation planning tool and daily reference.

Each year the Yankee travel editors, along with a trusted corps of “insiders”, select the very best from each state’s attractions, food, lodgings, and shopping. The picks are descriptively compact, yet include hours of operation, accepted credit cards, and price comparisons for restaurants and lodgings, and handicap access availability. The “Editors’ Picks” also appear on Yankee’s acclaimed Web site, www.NewEngland.com.

For over 65 years, Yankee has been the voice of New England. Yankee’s extensive travel product line includes Yankee Magazine, Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England, NewEngland.com, Yankee Magazine’s New England Bed & Breakfast and Inn Directory and Yankee Magazine Vacations.

“We are delighted to select Essex River Cruises and Charters as one of this year’s ‘Editors’ Picks,” said Mel Allen, editorial director of the 2002 Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England. “With so many unique and diverse places to choose from, we felt Essex River Cruises and Charters is especially worthy of a traveler’s stop.”

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"At 7:00 p.m., the 'Queen' emerged from the Essex River estuary to the smell of ocean and the sight of white sands—Crane's Beach and Wingaersheek. We turned back into the channel and rain rattled the roof, the motor hummed, and I was happy. We were quiet, watching the sandpipers stitch the marsh grass. On another night, the captain told us, we might see great blue herons or eagles, but tonight we settled for gulls.

And then, just before the antiques shops and the old piers of Essex closed in, the slate sky parted and a shaft of gold light flashed on six snowy egrets. It was a regal sight, a command performance."