Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:34:52 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

I also
recently saw a mangled mess of props, bent shafts and a hole almost 2 feet
long in a boat that got out of the channel in Wood's Hole and ran up on the
rocks.

Woods Hole can be one scary place when the current is ripping through
there. I have done a fair amount of boating over the years and still
regard it as one of the most dangerous places on the east coast.

I watched a cruising trawler pushed onto the underwater sandbars of St.
Augustine inlet one fine summer day about 12 years ago. There was a
strong southerly wind, breaking surf in the inlet and an incoming tide.
The boat was hard aground, but I don't believe it suffered any serious
damage. Two power cruisers pulled it loose, and it putted along on its way.

That was the first and only time I ever saw a powerboat run aground
there. The channel itself is deep and well-marked, and the sandbars are
obvious. Typically, sailboats have a difficult time there because of the
winds, tides, and lack of engine power. We'd see several sailboats a
year bang onto the sandbars at that location from our vantage point on
the south side, adjacent to the stone jetty.

This inlet is the one around the corner from Salt Run in St. Augustine.

The year we moved, a shrimp trawler ran aground just outside the inlet,
heading south. It sank and became a dangerous derelict. The boat went
down about 50 yards offshore of the beginning of the nude beach.