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"JimH" wrote in message
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You may want to read this prior to your departure. It may already be
something you are aware of, but I am posting it just in case you have not
read about the shoaling and low water situation:
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http://www.theboatingnews.com/0404ICW.html
Over the past six months or so, the Waterway has been shoaling, as it
often does, along its passage behind Lockwood's Folly Inlet, and across
the mouth of Lockwood's Folly River in southeastern North Carolina. Depths
in the Waterway channel at MLW have dropped to a mere 3 feet. This portion
of the ICW has now been CLOSED to commercial Waterway traffic except at
high water, and, even then, apparently the tow captains have to get
special permission to proceed.
With the new and seemingly total lack of funding for dredging the Atlantic
ICW, the Army Corps of Engineers is scrambling to try and find the
necessary moneys in some other part of their budget to dredge this
channel. There is NO guarantee that they will succeed.
Can you imagine the chaos this situation will cause this spring, if not
remedied by dredging, as the annual snowbird migration begins moving
north???!!!!
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