Interesting, notice in George and Ann’s comments below, they anchored just “outside” the entrance to Broad Creek. I have never tried this, and while this strategy clearly does not offer the level of foul weather protection availabe on the creek’s interior waters, it DOES avoid the tricky entrance and the somewhat questionable depths inside the stream.

We have anchored outside of the creek a few times, inside the `triangle’ formed by the north-to-south soundings of 6, 9, and 8 ft, which are just west of the charted mooring. Good holding and good protection from anything with a westerly component, especially the southwest which is often prevalent here. This has become our preferred stopping point on our north-south voyages before or after Norfolk.
George and Ann
`Incentive’ Hatteras 56MY

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