Beaufort City Mooring Recommended, Beaufort, SC, AICW Statute Mile 536.5
The Beaufort City Anchorage is a mooring field managed by the Downtown Marina of Beaufort, A SALTY SOUTHEAST CRUISERS’ NET SPONSOR! For more on the recently installed mooring field, see /?p=88324
We’ve anchored at Beaufort SC several times’¦. and each time I swear we’ll never do that again’¦. Love the town, but the currents are swift, and the bottom, at least where we’ve anchored in the past is HARD’¦. With a lot of scope out, you do PULL IN’¦ but you spend all you time wondering if just the tip of the anchor (Manson supreme) is all that’s `IN’’¦. Two days ago, with high winds, and lots of fetch (waves)’¦ We watched the two boats in front of us’¦ (toward the town) drag anchor, tangle and go ashore’¦ WE decided to pull anchor and leave’¦. or possibly suffer the same fate’¦
Recommendation’¦ TAKE a mooring ball or slip if going to Beaufort’¦ or leaving the boat’¦. We understand from the dockmaster that Beaufort WILL be putting in more moorings’¦. with better (as in larger) spacing’¦
Dean Perry
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Comments from Cruisers (2)
Dean, next time, try factory Creek. It’s out of the river, much more protected, close to groceries and shopping, easy dinghy access at the boat ramp or at Lady’s Island Marina and a short walk across the bridge to town. Chuck
WE’ve done FACTORY Creek… and it really IS closer to everything but the town… of Beaufort SC… Thanks… Our friends were all on the MUNI. docks at Beaufort…. (i.e. reason to “TRY” the anchorage “out front” again…. ) .
We have successfully anchored there in years past… But with fetch coming up from Port Royal Sound, and 20+ Knot wind, to boot… Staying there was just not “in the cards”…. Thanks again for note.