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(Rick Itenson) wrote:

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:13:28 -0400, DSK wrote:

muskrat wrote:
Thanks for confirming report of an unmarked nasty something lurking
around the intersection of New River and the ICW.

We went aground today just south of Wrightsville Beach about mm 285.
In the channel on the red side. Pushed sideways a bit by wind and
incoming tide. When people waked us we would bounce but not high
enough to get off. Had to get TowBoatUS.

I'm glad to see some sensible discussion of going outside. Why do so
many people buy heavy displacement "offshore" cruisers and then
putt-putt up and down the ICW? When we get an autopilot, I'm planning to
take the tugboat outside for as much of the route as feasible.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Doug,

It's all dependent on the weather for us. Rather than waiting 3 or 4
days for weather we'll go inside. However with more and more shoaling
I guess we'll be doing more and more waiting.

Rick
"Breathless"

Sometimes it isn't just 3-4 days. This winter people waited weeks for
a window to go to the Bahamas. OTOH this past week or two it has
been almost perfect for someone going north to go offshore. I find
offshore very tiring though, and although we are anxious to get home,
we decided not to go from Masonboro to Beaufort.

grandma Rosalie