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The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW)

It is possible to travel by boat along much of the East Coast and Gulf
Coast of the United States without going "outside" into the Atlantic
Ocean. How much of the trip you can make "inside" depends on your
boat."

Fairly extensive list of anchorage sites on the ICW from the crusing
logs of others listing location mileage marker and area notes.

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(Mic) wrote in :

It is possible to travel by boat along much of the East Coast and Gulf
Coast of the United States without going "outside" into the Atlantic
Ocean. How much of the trip you can make "inside" depends on your
boat."


What a silly idea.....

Might as well get a motorhome and tow an Escalade....

--
Larry

Larry wrote:
(Mic) wrote ...

It is possible to travel by boat along much of the East Coast and
Gulf Coast of the United States without going "outside" into the
Atlantic Ocean ...

What a silly idea ... Might as well get a motorhome and tow an
Escalade....

Really? Have you actually _tried_ it, or are you relying on a set of
assumptions? The "boat" thing, of course.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare

"Armond Perretta" wrote in
:

Really? Have you actually _tried_ it, or are you relying on a set of
assumptions? The "boat" thing, of course.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare



Motored the ICW from about Wilmington to the ditch down the E Coast of
FL....BORING...except when the 6' keel was dragging and snagging the crap
on the bottom from no dredging. Florida was awful....a constant series of
no-wake zones to protect the manatees who are overrunning the place. The
"channel" at Lake Worth was very noteworthy. 6' is too much draft for it.

It's pretty here in SC, but after you've seen 1 mile of swamp, you've
pretty much seen the next 100, unless you count the dock owners screaming
and shaking their fists as you RACE by at 6 knots. How many swamp reeds
can you look at per mile?

Nope...just point me N up 80W until we see Kiawah Island and we'll be close
to home in no time....
Boats belong OFFSHORE in the OCEAN, not in someone's backwater bathtub.

--
Larry

Larry wrote:
"Armond Perretta" wrote ...

Really? Have you actually _tried_ it, or are you relying on a set of
assumptions? The "boat" thing, of course.

Motored the ICW from about Wilmington ...

DE or NC?

... to the ditch down the E Coast of
FL....BORING...except when the 6' keel was dragging and snagging the
crap on the bottom from no dredging. Florida was awful....a constant
series of no-wake zones to protect the manatees who are overrunning
the place. The "channel" at Lake Worth was very noteworthy. 6' is
too much draft for it.

You would benefit from just "pulling over" and enjoying the view. There is
no inherent superiority of one over the other when it comes to comparing
offshore to inshore to inland.

Boats belong OFFSHORE in the OCEAN, not in someone's backwater
bathtub.

Boats "belong" wherever the folks on board are enjoying themselves. People
do not, in general, like being dictated to when it comes to what they should
do to have fun.

I have over the years listened all too often to this kind of thing. If the
Water Rat could satisfy himself on a heavy dew, the rest of us should take
heed.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare

"Armond Perretta" wrote:
Larry wrote:
"Armond Perretta" wrote ...

Really? Have you actually _tried_ it, or are you relying on a set of
assumptions? The "boat" thing, of course.

Motored the ICW from about Wilmington ...

DE or NC?

Yes I wondered the same thing.

... to the ditch down the E Coast of
FL....BORING...except when the 6' keel was dragging and snagging the

To have really boring IMHO you would be out in the middle of the ocean
with nothing to look at. Some people don't even like sailing in the
lower part of the Chesapeake as they think having the shore that far
away is boring.

crap on the bottom from no dredging. Florida was awful....a constant
series of no-wake zones to protect the manatees who are overrunning
the place. The "channel" at Lake Worth was very noteworthy. 6' is
too much draft for it.

I kind of agree that the manatees are not endangered. It is just that
this is the north end of their range, so there aren't as many here.
But even so, that's no reason to go running them down with a boat.
Why would a sailboat be concerned with a no-wake zone anyway? Wake?
What's that? Wakes are for motor boats.

You would benefit from just "pulling over" and enjoying the view. There is
no inherent superiority of one over the other when it comes to comparing
offshore to inshore to inland.

That's what I wanted to say, but you said it better.

Boats belong OFFSHORE in the OCEAN, not in someone's backwater
bathtub.

Boats "belong" wherever the folks on board are enjoying themselves. People
do not, in general, like being dictated to when it comes to what they should
do to have fun.

I have over the years listened all too often to this kind of thing. If the
Water Rat could satisfy himself on a heavy dew, the rest of us should take
heed.

grandma Rosalie

"Armond Perretta" wrote in news:zP-
:

DE or NC?


NC. Sane people sail SOUTH from here....way too many beautiful places to
sail North into the industrial slime.

Have you done the South Carolina coast, other than the ditch passing
through? The ditch is the worst of it. I took some Canadians in their
sailboat up into the lake up the Cooper River into Lake Moultrie for a
little fresh water flush. That's a beautiful trip past the old rice
fields, plantation houses, Mepkin Abbey up into the tailrace canal of the
old earthen dam that makes the lake. The Bald Eagles fishing in the river
and canal are quite unafraid. The Canadians had been through here many
times and had no idea how beautiful it was up there. There's about 3200
miles of navigable waterways within 50 miles of here. I live on the Ashley
River at Riverbend, across from Magnolia Gardens, an old plantation house
the state turned into a tourist trap. A 6' draft can go up the river about
9 miles through the railroad drawbridge with 55' of vertical clearance in
the road bridges. Ashley River is a protected waterway, whatever that
means.

You can motor our waterways, especially during the week, and never see a
single soul for miles and miles. Anchor out any place you like away from
the ditch and harbor. Bring your crab trap and anchor out off some tidal
creek in 16' of water. Dinner blue crab is just waiting for you here in a
couple of hours. Some who find out about us never do make it to Florida's
overcrowded ditches for the winter. It was 82 and sunny, today.
Charleston weather is the same as Jacksonville's without the bumper-to-
bumper boat traffic jammed into the ditch because there's no place else to
go.

--
Larry

Larry wrote:

"Armond Perretta" wrote in
:

Really? Have you actually _tried_ it, or are you relying on a set of
assumptions? The "boat" thing, of course.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare



Motored the ICW from about Wilmington to the ditch down the E Coast of
FL....BORING...except when the 6' keel was dragging and snagging the crap
on the bottom from no dredging. Florida was awful....a constant series of
no-wake zones to protect the manatees who are overrunning the place. The
"channel" at Lake Worth was very noteworthy. 6' is too much draft for it.

If you have only done Wilmington NC south, you have missed the best
part - namely the sounds of NC (Albemarle and Elizabeth City) and the
Chesapeake. And you've picked the worst place to go - i.e. the E.
coast of Florida, which except for the ocean side of the Keys and some
places in the Indian River area are absolutely horrible.

It's pretty here in SC, but after you've seen 1 mile of swamp, you've
pretty much seen the next 100, unless you count the dock owners screaming
and shaking their fists as you RACE by at 6 knots. How many swamp reeds
can you look at per mile?

Nope...just point me N up 80W until we see Kiawah Island and we'll be close
to home in no time....
Boats belong OFFSHORE in the OCEAN, not in someone's backwater bathtub.

grandma Rosalie