SC Anchorages – AICW, Belle Isle to Sullivan Island (Statute Mile 410 to 464)
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Please Note That Anchorages Below are Listed in A Rough Geographic Format , Moving North to South
Statute Mile: 415.5
Lat/Lon: Near 33 11.564 North/079 16.703 West
Location: on the waters of Minim Creek hard by the southern foot of the Minim Creek Canal, just south of flashing daybeacon #4
Minimum Depth: 8-feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for boats as large as 40 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Good, but marsh grass shores do not render sufficient shelter in really heavy weather
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Statute Mile: 415.4
Lat/Lon: Near 33 11.388 North/079 16.376 West
Location: off the ICW’s southeastern flank northeast of unlighted daybeacon #5
Minimum Depth: 7 to 7 1/2 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for boats as large as 38 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Fair; open to southern and northerly winds
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Statute Mile: 416
Lat/Lon: Near 33 11.114 North/079 16.602 West
Location: off the ICW’s southeastern flank northeast of unlighted daybeacon #5
Minimum Depth: 8 ½ feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for boats as large as 36 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Poor; open to southwestern and northeastern winds
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Statute Mile: 417.5
Lat/Lon: 33 10.178 North/079 17.467 West
Location: the seward side branch of the North Santee River intersects the Waterway southwest of flashing daybeacon #15
Minimum Depth: 7 ½ to 8 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for boats as large as 48 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Fair to Poor; open to southerly winds
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It’s best if you go around the bend and get away from ICW traffic. Good Anchorage!
Statute Mile: 417.5
Lat/Lon: 33 10.665 North/079 18.629 West
Location: the mainland branch of the North Santee River intersects the Waterway southwest of flashing daybeacon #15
Minimum Depth: 7 ½ to 8 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 38 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Good, but open to southeastern and northwestern winds
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Statute Mile: 417.5, but located well off the Waterway
Lat/Lon: 33 12.484 North/079 22.975 West
Location: on the waters of North Santee River’s mainland branch, just southeast of the twin Highway 17 fixed, 29-foot bridges
Minimum Depth: 7 ½ to 8 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 38 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Excellent unless unusually strong winds are blowing from the southeast
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We anchored above the bridges on the south side in 14 feet of water, just slightly upstream from Hopsewee. Spent the night and took the dinghy to the Hopsewee dock and visited the plantation. Interesting tour. Need to keep an eye out for floating logs which move up and down the river with the tide on the south side of the river.
Claiborne, I anchored near the bridges without problem. My boat is a Dickerson 41ft., ketch, draft 5 ft.
Bruce
Statute Mile: 420
Lat/Lon:
33 09.185 North/079 19.605 West (Anchorage northeast of Brown Island)
33 09.278 North/079 21.177 West (Anchorage west of Brown Island)
Location: the ICW crosses the path of the South Santee River southwest of flashing daybeacon 22
Minimum Depth: 7-feet if and only if you can keep to the unmarked channel
Special Comment: a GPS chartplotter would be very helpful in safely accessing these anchorages
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 39 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Good, but upstream anchorage is wide open to northwesterly winds
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Spent a very nice evening at anchor here. No traffic to speak of. Just three other cruising boats. Use the proper scope and the currents are not problem. I found the holding ground to be very good.
Awendaw Creek Anchorage
Statute Mile: 435.5
Lat/Lon: 33 02.070 North/079 32.307 West
Location: main entrance to the creek cuts south, just west of AICW marker #47 – BE SURE to enter this anchorage ONLY by way of its easternmost (northernmost) mouth
Minimum Depth: 6 feet, but use of a GPS chartplotter is recommended to help avoid several charted, but unmarked shoals as the creek’s primary entrance swings to the east
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 45 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Good, but somewhat open to strong easterly blows
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Anchored here on 10/1/2012-all positive comments on this anchorage are true. Went in at 1 hour before low tide and never had less than 8′ and mostly double digits in the anchorage. “No-seeum’s” came out at sundown but an “Off” coil kept them to a minimum.
Statute Mile: 439
Lat/Lon: near 33 00.615 North/079 35.340 West
Location: Graham Creek cuts the southeastern shores of the ICW near unlighted daybeacon #64
Minimum Depth: 6-feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for boats as large as 40 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Good, unless particularly strong winds are blowing from the south
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Anchored in Graham Creek with 2 other boats as we write. Beautiful spot with miles of salt marsh in 3 directions. Plenty of depth and swinging room.
Pete & Mary Ann
s/v MicMac
Statute Mile: 448
Lat/Lon: near 32 53.964 North/079 39.991 West
Location: Price Creek makes into the Waterway’s southeastern banks, southwest of flashing daybeacon #84
Minimum Depth: 8-feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for boats as large as 34 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Fair, open to northwestern and southwesterly winds
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Anchored here for lunch, beautiful beaches here!
Statute Mile: 451.5
Lat/Lon: near 32 52.308 North/079 42.867 West
Location: creek cuts the northwestern banks of the Waterway northeast of flashing daybeacon #96Minimum Depth: 10-feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for boats as large as 38 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Very good, except surrounding marsh grass shores do not offer sufficient shelter for especially heavy weather
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We anchored here on 11/22/09. One sailboat was already anchored in the prime spot so we went around the 1st bend and attempted to anchor. After two unsuccessful attempts to get the Danforth to set, we moved back to the first leg of the creek and anchored just up stream of the other sailboat. Shortly afterward another sailboat anchored just off the other boat’s stern.
It was raining and the wind was 15 gusting to 20 knots. This creek is totally exposed with nothing but marsh grass all around. After two failed anchor sets, my anxiety level about the anchorage was maxed out. It was getting dark so we were stuck with this place. One of those sleepless night anchorages.
We anchored here and liked the location but found the current somewhat challenging. We anchored just north of the 23′ sounding in the chartlet (the indicated location, near the 11′ sounding, is not a great choice) and had plenty of room to swing in. As did two other 40’+ boats. The problem was we were caught in a wind vs. current situation and rode strangely all night. The hook held well, but the amount of current is worth noting.
Statute Mile: 452
Lat/Lon: near 32 51.899 North/079 43.256 West
Location: northeast of the Waterway’s flashing daybeacon #99
Minimum Depth: 6-feet
Swing Room: enough room for boats as large as 36 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Fair to Good, but open to southwesterly winds
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Statute Mile: 455
Lat/Lon:
32 49.866 North/079 45.632 West (Anchorage on central branch of Dewees Creek, west of this stream’s intersection with Long Creek)
32 49.503 North/079 45.175 West (Anchorage on Long Creek)
32 50.299 North/079 44.788 West (Anchorge on unnamed, northern branch of Dewees Creek, west of the Long Creek intersection
Location: Dewees Creek crosses the Waterway to the south of unlighted daybeacon #109
Minimum Depth: 8 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 34 to 40 feet depending on particular anchorage chosen
Foul Weather Shelter: Protection: Fair to Good; marsh grass shores do not offer enough shelter for particularly heavy weather
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We anchored recently at the Northern most spot shown above. Dolphins were swimming and diving all around for hours. It’s a nice spot.
On the way in, there’s a “hole” about 90 feet deep. It’s known locally as “shark hole”.
We have anchored our 61′ LOA boat on the western Dewee’s Creek spot shown in you chartlet, as well as twice on Long Creek, one time where shown on the chartlet and once further south around the bend. Long Creek is a little roomier for us, holding is very good. We like the Low Country beauty of the marshes there.
George and Ann
“Incentive” Hatteras 56MY
Statute Mile: 459
Lat/Lon: near 32 47.280 North/079 47.517 West
Location: Hamlin Creek cuts the AICW’s southern banks West-southwest of unlighted daybeacon #117
Minimum Depth: 5 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for boats as large as 36 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Fair; open to southwesterly winds
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This is not a proper place to anchor while in transit.
– Fixed bridge on NE entrance to creek – CL 28′
– South toward ICW is terrible shoaling and an inlet bridge
with up to 6kts current.
Strongly advise you remove this from site. Tom
Statute Mile: 460
Lat/Lon: near 32 47.753 North/079 48.638 West
Location: Swinton Creek makes into the Wateway’s northern banks, west of flashing daybeacon #118
Minimum Depth: 5 feet, but you must successfully avoid several uncharted and unmarked shoals at the creek’s entrance
Swing Room: sufficient room for boats as large as 36 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Good, but marsh grass shores do offer enough shelter for particularly heavy weather
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Statute Mile: 461
Lat/Lon: near 32 47.120 North/079 49.504 West
Location: Inlet Creek lies off the Waterway’s northern banks immediately west of unlighted daybeacon #119
Minimum Depth: 8-feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for boasts as large as 38 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Good, but a bit slightly open to the north and south
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Statute Mile: 461.5
Lat/Lon: near 32 46.845 North/079 49.925 West
Location: Conch Creek crosses the ICW just north of unlighted daybeacon #121
Minimum Depth: 6-feet
Swing Room: only enough room boats as large as 32 feet (tight!)
Foul Weather Shelter: Good
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Comments from Cruisers (5)
We anchored on the western branch of Minim Creek, just past the dock. There was plenty of swing room and good protection from fetch. Very quiet area, so remote that no lights could be seen at night. Our kind of anchorage. It was a good stop for us to stage for a morning arrival at the Georgetown Public Docks, so we could visit the town during our day-only free stay.
Glen and Jill Moore
DeFever 40 Last Dance
We anchored in 8 feet at mid tide. There is plenty of swing room for a 41ft cat proably enough for a 50 ft monohull. We anchored seaward.
JackP
Great anchorage except the mosquitos were killer this past weekend.
We spent a pleasant night anchored on Minum ck. early in May 2009. Holding, swing room, and depth was sufficient for our 55 Viking FDMY
Ron & Audrey
Lucky Girl
Wednesday found us on our way to Minim Creek, south of Georgetown, SC for the evening. Sometimes this is a great anchorage and sometimes not. Wednesday night was one of those good times. Lots of bugs, but bearable.