"JimH" wrote in message
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Thanks for the tip, but I did not bring the boat down this year.
Hopefully
next year if things work out.

What is needed is a few passes with a big old honkin' work tug to clear
the
channel in the low spots.

Eisboch



Have you traveled it before and was it as bad?



I have, but apparently sections of the ICW have become even more shallow
since, due to lack of funding for dredging. I remember one section in South
Carolina that we ran aground in less than 3 feet of water right in the
middle of the channel. There was a small inlet from the ocean into the ICW
nearby and the channel had shoaled up. Fortunately, it was soft and I was
able to walk the boat off using the thrusters. There were a couple of other
places that I know we hit bottom, but again, it was soft and we were going
fast enough to plow our way through. Next trip will be mostly off-shore,
other than the Cape Hatteras area.

Eisboch