Get a copies of
Skipper Bob's
Anchorages on the
ICW, and
Marinas on the ICW. (I have no connection to these publications, except as a satisfied user)
Also, you might enjoy the book "The Boy, Me and the Cat" by Henry Plummer, about a voyage down the ICW, MA to
Miami, and back in a catboat in 1912.Fun to read about similarities and differences from what it is today. Then there was no Alligator River to Pungo River Canal, but there was a
Raritan to Delaware R Canal that they used.