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Bahamas Chatter: Repost: Another source for weather forecasts
Repost: Another source for weather forecasts
Posted: 22 Feb 2017 08:06 AM PST
Another source for weather forecasts
Here is a link for Marvin Market’s free weather forecasts:
Marv has been offering this service for a number of years. Marv says… After checking out our daily buoy reports if you find them of use, feel free to sign up for our free service and we will add you to our daily eMail list …
also once you have had a chance to check out our free service please feel free to share our free service via your Bahamas Chatter …
please let us know if you have any questions .
This Waterway shoaling is building on the northeast side between Green Markers #5 and #7, just south of the Waterway crossing of the St. Johns River.
FLORIDA – AICW –ST SIMONS SOUND – TOLOMATO RIVER – PABLO CREEK: Shoaling
The Captain of the Port Jacksonville advises all mariners transiting in vicinity of Pablo Creek and Mile Point on the Intracoastal Waterway, that a shoal is forming on the northeast side of Pablo Creek. The shoal extends from east of Pablo Creek temporary Lighted Buoy 5 (LLNR 38360 [30°22.6438N / 081°27.3008W, 30.377397 / -81.455013]) to southeast of Pablo Creek Temporary Buoy 7 (LLNR 38370 [30°22.5073N / 081°27.1674W, 30.375122 / -81.452790]) and encroaching to the south and west of Pablo Creek. Minimum depths of 7 ½ feet are recorded in this area. Mariners transiting this portion of Pablo Creek with draft concerns are advised to navigate with caution while passing through this area. Chart 11489 LNM 08/17
Think you will enjoy this wonderful article by Lauren Mack in The Daily Meal. Descriptions of the chain of Keys, as well as recommended eateries, are offered.
12 Ways the Florida Keys Are Unlike Anywhere Else on Earth
Feb 21, 2017 | 2:31 pm
By Lauren Mack
The Florida Keys are connected by the 110-mile Overseas Highway.
When the Florida Keys, a 120-mile chain of islands off the Sunshine State’s southernmost tip, decided to stage a ceremonial “secession” from the U.S. in 1982, the Conch Republic was born; you can even get your passport stamped with a novelty Conch Republic stamp. Since then, the world has taken note that the Florida Keys are unlike anywhere else on Earth.
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL ARTICLE
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Bahamas Chatter: “ALIV Phone Service” plus 1 more
ALIV Phone Service
Posted: 21 Feb 2017 09:41 AM PST
There is a new phone plan available called ALIV with calls to the Bahamas, U.S. and Canada. Their website is bealiv.com. They offer 7- and 30-day prepaid plans as well as smartphones of various brands.
Has anyone of our subscribers used this plan? Can you give us a report on how and where it works. All of our Chatter subscribers would be interested in knowing about this new phone service and/or company for Bahamas cruisers.
Clearing in at West End
Posted: 20 Feb 2017 05:09 PM PST
White Pepper cleared in at West End last Sunday. Everything went well. Customs and Immigration were very professional as always. However, I was asked about pets for the first time in 5 clearings. Just a heads up. If you clear in at West End have your pet documentation in order.
We are in Freeport on our boat. We just got an ALIV phone and one month package. Great so far. Had to phone back to US and Canada with no problem. 500 minutes goes a long way.
make sure you understand where it works as it does not every where I bought the service and it did not work in the berries
Explorer Chartbooks, A SALTY SOUTHEAST CRUISERS’ NET PARTNER, has long been the standard navigational supplement for enjoyable, informative, and safe cruising through the beautiful Bahamian waters and island visits.
Bahamas Chatter: New Vet established in Eleuthra
New Vet established in Eleuthra
Posted: 20 Feb 2017 04:59 AM PST
Eleuthra has a vetinarian now. Dr Sands-Johnson has established a roving practice here in Eleuthra, and should have a clinc up and running sometime in the next month in Rock Sound.
The practice is called Noah’s Ark Animal Center.
She does house/dock/boat calls!
Reasonable rates as well.
Email is noahsark.eleu@gmail.com
The clinic is on fb, follow her and you will see when it opens.
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Our thanks to David Grimes for this warning via WWAY TV3. Our most recent Nav Alert on the perennial shoaling at Mason Inlet is from July of 2016, see /158529.
Dozens of boats running aground near Mason’s Inlet.
David Grimes
CLICK HERE FOR THE WWAY TV3 REPORT
Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To A “Navigation Alert” Position at Mason Inlet.
Dredge working there today. Sunday April 2, 2017.
Our thanks to Tommy Bessinger for this question to which I am sure many boaters who have fought the opposing swift current through Wappoo Creek – Elliott Cut will have answers and opinions – no profanity, please! Elliott Cut is a short, narrow Waterway channel through a residential neighborhood of high steep banks connecting the Ashley River with the Stono River. Although references are made to “Wappoo Cut” and “Elliott Cut” as early as the 1770’s, Wappoo Creek, as charted, west of the Ashley River, becomes is a winding shallow creek running north of Elliott’s Cut. Elliott’s Cut, named for William Elliott, was dredged to bypass the twists of Wappoo Creek and was dredged to the current depth in the late 1880’s as part of the Intracoastal Waterway Project. Historians, please add your two-cents or more to help allay Tommy’s questions!
I live on Elliott’s Cut in the neighborhood of Edgewater Park. Lived here most of my life. I have looked and I cannot find any of the history of the construction of Elliott’s Cut and how and when it came to be. Can anyone please point me in the right direction for information please? Thank you!!!
Tommy Bessinger
References from Google:
http://riverspoint.net/jihistth.pdf
Leaving Charleston Harbor south, the Intracoastal Waterway passed from the Ashley River through the Wappoo Cut and continued along a sinuous string of tidal streams and land cuts 66.5 miles to the Beaufort River at Beaufort, South Carolina. Better than the segment to the north of Charleston, the existing inland water course from Charleston to Beaufort had a minimum depth of six (6) feet, interrupted at only four locations, and, except for a six (6) mile passage across the St. Helena Sound, was well protected from the sea.
Earlier work on this segment of the waterway tackled its most problematic stretches. The first undertaking was at Wappoo Cut, a crooked and shallow creek that joined the Ashley and Steno rivers. By dredging and by a cutoff bypassing some of the worst bends, a project authorized in 1881 created a channel through the cut six (6) feet deep and sixty (60) feet wide. At the other end of this segment, a project adopted in 1890 improved Brickyard Creek. A continuation of the Beaufort River, Brickyard Creek had a fairly good seven (7) foot channel except near its juncture with the Coosaw River, where the channel practically disappeared among shoals. Work completed in 1905 provided the creek with a constant seven (7) foot depth and “convenient width.” A third improvement, made in 1905-1906, was the construction of Fenwicks Island Cut in the central portion of this segment. It replaced a narrow, tortuous, and shallow passage through Mosquito Creek – the cut, seven (7) feet deep and ninety (90) feet wide, connected the South Edisto River with the Ashepoo River.
J.D. Lewis – PO Box 1188 – Little River, SC 29566
http://www.carolana.com/SC/Transportation/sc_icw.html
From The Siege of Charleston 1780 by Gen. Wilmot G. DeSaussure
http://www.clansinclairsc.org/siegecharleston.htm
Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To the Location of the Elliott Cut – Wappoo Creek Section of the AICW
Derelict and abandoned vessels are a huge factor in the increasingly restrictive anchoring regulations in Florida. See MTOA Florida Legislature Update 2.
Derelict boats accumulating along Central Florida coast
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. —
The Intracoastal Waterway is among the gems of the Central Florida coast, but rotting, sinking and rundown boats are marring the landscape. Volusia County officials are working to remove derelict boats from the county’s waterways, but officials said it won’t happen overnight.
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL REPORT and Video from Claire Metz of NBC WESH News 2, Orlando
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