muskrat wrote:
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.

Bummer. What kind of boat?

We've had pretty good luck (knock wood) in that department, we've hit
stuff where the water was theoritically deep enough, and nothing showed
on the surface, in places like the Trent, the Pasquotank (now there's a
beautiful river), Topsail channel, and now this New River channel
junction. We've got a full skeg but it still isn't bulletproof.


Will definitely be taking it slow through that area for quite a while
unless a marker magically appears. Fat chance!

It's a good place to be careful.

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