As the baby boomers migrate to the warmer coastal regions, the demand for waterfront has steadily increased and the desire for an active social lifestyle have made marina communities especially attractive.  Leaving a city where you have established social outlets and moving to the coast for the beauty and tranquility is often a short lived venture if not combined with making new friends and finding the right location, with plenty recreational opportunity's that make finding new friends easy and one that makes family want to visit.

A growing trend among nautical loving boomers is to seek communities with a private marina, clubhouse, pool and community grill that make meeting new like minded friends easy.  Frequent potluck dinner gatherings are the norm along with planed group boating excursions to pristine anchorages and coastal towns.

Someone always finds a reason to have a party whether it's an anniversary, birthday or just a full-moon sail.  Port Vandemere is one such boating community in the making and the attitude of many of the early adapters is the heck with tranquility 24/7….. lets live life!

Coastal North Carolina was often forgotten by many in their search for warmer weather, but recently that trend has changed in favor of a location that's affordable, within a days drive of where most snow birds called home and still has mild winters, a good example is Oriental North Carolina's New Years Day sailboat races, which are typically the largest sailing event of the year.