You may want to read this prior to your departure up north. It may already
be something you are aware of, but I am posting it just in case you have not
read about the shoaling and low water situation:
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http://www.theboatingnews.com/0404ICW.html

Over the past six months or so, the Waterway has been shoaling, as it often
does, along its passage behind Lockwood's Folly Inlet, and across the mouth
of Lockwood's Folly River in southeastern North Carolina. Depths in the
Waterway channel at MLW have dropped to a mere 3 feet. This portion of the
ICW has now been CLOSED to commercial Waterway traffic except at high water,
and, even then, apparently the tow captains have to get special permission
to proceed.
With the new and seemingly total lack of funding for dredging the Atlantic
ICW, the Army Corps of Engineers is scrambling to try and find the necessary
moneys in some other part of their budget to dredge this channel. There is
NO guarantee that they will succeed.

Can you imagine the chaos this situation will cause this spring, if not
remedied by dredging, as the annual snowbird migration begins moving
north???!!!!

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