A medium sized city with a strong maritime environment? Ships, boats, and boardwalk?

Question

A place like Boston would be too big. I am looking for a smaller city on either coast where shipping and boating

are big, and the public has easy access to the environment.

I am looking at Portland, Maine right now. Please give me other ideas. Thanks.

Answer 1

Annapolis, MD, Tampa, FL, Jacksonville, FL, Galveston, TX, Gulfport, MS, Pascagoula, MS, Mobile, AL, Wilmington, NC, Charleston, SC, Cleveland, OH, Seattle, WA, the whole Puget Sound area in fact, and lots of towns in California.

Portland, ME is a small city (population 63K). There are lots of cities this size that I have not named.

Do you have an atlas?

Regards,

Dan

Answer 2

I'd go with Baltimore, city population of 725,000.  Has world famous Inter Harbor, commercial shipping, and Chesapeake Bay boating.  Close to DC.  The "Promenade" circles the inter harbor.

Answer 3

Seattle? Victoria BC maybe?

Answer 4

Virginia Beach/Norfolk

Answer 5

Key West

Galveston

Tampico

San Juan

Monterey

Fort Lauderdale