I've been in a few times - always with trouble. (I draw 5 ft). I've
wondered if the row of buoys outside in fact mark the channel, and if
so which side. They appear to be speed limit warnings, but are lined
up as if to mark a channel.

As for anchoring - in my experience, the deep water is foul - trees et
al that can be a real chore to pull up along with your anchor.
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In article ,
says...


I've been in a few times - always with trouble. (I draw 5 ft). I've
wondered if the row of buoys outside in fact mark the channel, and if
so which side. They appear to be speed limit warnings, but are lined
up as if to mark a channel.

No, they don't mark a channel though they do make aiming points. But one
that was in the outside channel is now gone.

As for anchoring - in my experience, the deep water is foul - trees et
al that can be a real chore to pull up along with your anchor.

Yes, anchoring can be chancey. Took us three tries last weekend. Usually
we grab on the first attempt. Have seen a lot of people pull up trees but
no one so far has retrieved my Cruise'n'Carry outboard that fell off the
stern of the dink some 16 years ago. Have also seen whole rafts break
loose. The place can get crowded on a weekend with lots of motorboats.
But the usual sequence is the power boats, especially the smaller more
raucous ones, come in during the day and leave in the evening. The
sailboats tend to come in in the evening. The power boats are all local,
the sailboats often transient. If the weather is at all cloudy, windy or
rainy, there are few powerboats. We have often been the only boat in the
place at sunset on Sunday, Ah! Tranquility, twenty miles from Manhattan.

I guess I have never before heard the Sand Hole referred to as part of the ICW.
Do the barges stop there to load up on fuel and DVD movies?

We left the next morning at dead low tide. We never had a problem before.
But this time we were stuck, first on the inner bar then the outer one.
We spent three hours trying to get out, which had never happened before.

So, if you are going there, beware. And don't even try to enter on an
ebbing tide. You could end up with an excellent opportunity to clear the
barnacles off your prop and shaft. Been there, done that.

Don't feel bad.... the ICW is just as dangerous and problematic.
Locally, the ICW is down to three feet depth in some places (Lockwood
Folly Inlet).

See: http://www.jule-iii.com/icw.shtml

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The drugs must be affecting your reading skills, jaxie. He didn't say it was
the ICW, he compared it to the ICW.

And you realize, of course, that the ICW does go through Long Island Sound.


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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I guess I have never before heard the Sand Hole referred to as part of the
ICW.
Do the barges stop there to load up on fuel and DVD movies?

We left the next morning at dead low tide. We never had a problem before.
But this time we were stuck, first on the inner bar then the outer one.
We spent three hours trying to get out, which had never happened before.

So, if you are going there, beware. And don't even try to enter on an
ebbing tide. You could end up with an excellent opportunity to clear the
barnacles off your prop and shaft. Been there, done that.

Don't feel bad.... the ICW is just as dangerous and problematic.
Locally, the ICW is down to three feet depth in some places (Lockwood
Folly Inlet).

He didn't say it was
the ICW, he compared it to the ICW.

why?

And you realize, of course, that the ICW does go through Long Island Sound.

only if you consider LIS to be part of the Hudson River.

Actually, I don't think I mentioned the word "barge." Where did you
get that from?

actually, you *did* say -- for god know what fricken reason -- ICW.

Are you actually claiming the ICW goes up the Hudson River???

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
He didn't say it was
the ICW, he compared it to the ICW.

why?

And you realize, of course, that the ICW does go through Long Island Sound.

only if you consider LIS to be part of the Hudson River.

Are you actually claiming the ICW goes up the Hudson River???

it is on my chart.

Ever seen a chart, jeffies?

Are you actually claiming the ICW goes up the Hudson River???

jeffies, here are the bridge clearnances on the ICW up to Troy NY (on the
Hudson River, jeffies,north of Albany, capital of the state of New York and a
three hour drive north by car from New York City, all of which is west of LIS),
according to the USCG.

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-o/g-opt/Clearance.htm

Subject: The Sand Hole -- Oyster Bay
From: (JAXAshby)
Date: 08/11/2004 17:39 Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

He didn't say it was
the ICW, he compared it to the ICW.

why?

And you realize, of course, that the ICW does go through Long Island Sound.

only if you consider LIS to be part of the Hudson River.


Cripes, here we go again with another one of Doodles definition rants.

Shen