This is one of the few instances where I am in categorical disagreement with the author of the posting below. As Captain Fine notes, the AICW/Hell Gate passage, which connects the Waterway between the Vernon and Ogeechee Rivers, has just been dredged. I think this is the preferred passage, at least until shoaling once again begins to seriously rear its ugly head, as opposed to the “way around” via Ossabaw Sound, mentioned below.
How about some other cruisers who have recently transited the Georgia portion of the Waterway weigh in on this. Did you make use of Hell Gate? What sort of depths did you find, and at what level of tide? Please share your observations by clicking the “Comment on This Posting/Marina/Anchorage/Bridge” link below.

Hi
I’ve just come in the north channel of Ossabaw Sound. True, the winds were 25-30 out of the south, south west, but the marked North Channel is shoaled all the way across ‘“ this is serious ‘“ where the charts, even the most recent ones indicate there’s 40 feet there isn’t. You can follow the marked depths of the channel to the north but the north channel itself is nowhere as deep as marked on the newest charts.
Hell Gate which was recently dredged does not have 5.5 feet of water at low tide. I don’t know what it is at high, but at low, you’re pretty much going around the Ossabaw Sound to get back to the ICW.
Day of experience: 4/25/2010
Bob Fine