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"Armond Perretta" wrote in news:zP-
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DE or NC?

NC. Sane people sail SOUTH from here....way too many beautiful places to
sail North into the industrial slime.

Have you done the South Carolina coast, other than the ditch passing
through? The ditch is the worst of it. I took some Canadians in their
sailboat up into the lake up the Cooper River into Lake Moultrie for a
little fresh water flush. That's a beautiful trip past the old rice
fields, plantation houses, Mepkin Abbey up into the tailrace canal of the
old earthen dam that makes the lake. The Bald Eagles fishing in the river
and canal are quite unafraid. The Canadians had been through here many
times and had no idea how beautiful it was up there. There's about 3200
miles of navigable waterways within 50 miles of here. I live on the Ashley
River at Riverbend, across from Magnolia Gardens, an old plantation house
the state turned into a tourist trap. A 6' draft can go up the river about
9 miles through the railroad drawbridge with 55' of vertical clearance in
the road bridges. Ashley River is a protected waterway, whatever that
means.

You can motor our waterways, especially during the week, and never see a
single soul for miles and miles. Anchor out any place you like away from
the ditch and harbor. Bring your crab trap and anchor out off some tidal
creek in 16' of water. Dinner blue crab is just waiting for you here in a
couple of hours. Some who find out about us never do make it to Florida's
overcrowded ditches for the winter. It was 82 and sunny, today.
Charleston weather is the same as Jacksonville's without the bumper-to-
bumper boat traffic jammed into the ditch because there's no place else to
go.

--
Larry