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Wilmington-New Bern Trip Report - Was NC Charts Wilmington to New Bern
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(muskrat) wrote:
Hey, Captain Doug,
Thanks for confirming report of an unmarked nasty something lurking
around the intersection of New River and the ICW.
Last week another boater had a problem there - hit something which
ripped shaft from stuffing box and jammed prop into rudder. Nearly
sank and is still on the hill.
Will definitely be taking it slow through that area for quite a while
unless a marker magically appears. Fat chance!
May the wind be at your back,
muskrat
We got from Southport to Masonboro OK, and considered going outside
but did not. (We took a short day because of the long trip outside to
Southport which we still have not recovered from) We were basically
aground in Southport Marina at low tide, and so were the floating
docks. Bald Head apparently has no fuel at present.
On the way north the next day, right about MM 285 south of
Wrightsville Beach (opposite Shinn Creek) we ran hard aground in the
channel close to the red side. Had to get TowBoatUS to drag us off.
We got to Harbour Village Marina (another short day) without too much
other problems.
Today we did not run aground on the way to Swansboro. We transited
the New River area an near high tide (probably about 2.5 feet) and the
lowest depth we saw was 7 feet at the south red floater. Also 8 feet
at the south side of the inlet and 9 feet at the north red floater.
It was none-the-less stressful. Someone did come in to Swansboro
with a bent prop who had a draft of 3.5 feet (we draw 5 feet)
It was probably better that we not go outside though, as the marine
corp has been conducting live fire exercises off the coast 15 miles,
and today a warship had a fouled bore on one of the guns and was
having to tell sailboats to stay 15 nm away from him. We couldn't go
through the Onslow Beach bridge until noon, as has been the case each
of the last 3 days.
We are both quite tired and stressed, and will be glad to finally get
home.
grandma Rosalie
S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id2.html
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