Rosalie B. wrote in
:

Geoff Schultz wrote:

Didn't Skipper Bob die? Most of the information I see now comes from
Claiborne Young

Simply get a book like Skipper Bob's Anchorages and read where the
shoaling is. You can get updates on-line. I annotate the book with
the updates and create warning symbols on the GPS course which warn me
when I'm heading into a area known to have problems. Following this
procedure I didn't have any issues this year, but I knew many people
who did and they were just following the R/Gs and didn't realize where
the shoaling was.

-- Geoff

I have all the charts with notations (like the new buoys north of the
Alligator River bridge and the channel that is closed in Beaufort NC.)

But in this case, we'd been in Marathon all winter and hadn't seen
anything about this particular problem although the TBUS guy said that
a lot of people had run aground there.

Here's the Skipper Bob update on the Masonboro Inlet:

ICW, Mile 280.4, Mason Inlet

CAUTION – The channel has shoaled to 3.8' MLW on the green side near
G121 at the Mason Inlet. Stay on the red side between R122 and G123.
Use waypoint N34º 14.95 and W77º 46.98 as the deep water point on the
red side opposite the shoaling on the green side near G121. Based on
USACOE Report dated November 8, 2005. (July 16, 2006)

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org