Best Yachting Town by Yachting Magazine

 50 Best Yachting Towns 2012
The results are in! Check out our favorite North American Yachting destinations for 2012. Towns are listed alphabetically after the winner of the online poll.

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With a landslide victory, Beaufort, North Carolina is our 2012 winner!
If this seaside town was good enough for Capt. Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard), it’s good enough for us. The infamous seafaring swashbuckler and his famed vessel Queen Anne’s Revenge called this part of the mid-Atlantic home. Naturally, the North Carolina Maritime Museum here features an

Beaufort Voted "America's Coolest Small Town"

Crystal Coast Newsroom
North Carolina's Historic Beaufort Named "America's Coolest Small Town"
February 24, 2012

BEAUFORT, N.C. – Boasting more than 300 years of historical legacy, the town of Beaufort on the Crystal Coast – North Carolina’s Southern Outer Banks – has been named “America’s Coolest Small Town” for 2012 by Budget Travel magazine. First chosen by the publication out of 647 submissions to be a top 10 contender, Beaufort’s charm and history gained a loyal following of fans that voted throughout January 2012. The seventh annual “America’s Coolest Small Town” proved an intense competition evidenced by multiple website crashes on the final day as voting peaked.

Because the race was tight between the top two towns and voters were locked out during a crucial