On 9/22/09, as part of a “Georgia Wish List,” I posed the following question:

3. Has anyone used the alternate “South Channel” to cruise from the Savannah River to the ICW’s southward trek. This cut, which departs the Savannah River abeam of flashing buoy #50, is useful to cruisers coming downstream from Savannah, but a 35-foot fixed bridge crosses the passage, and I’ve heard rumors of depth problems.

Responses follow:

We used the south channel going back to the ICW. The only depth problem might be just past the red A12 and before the the green A15 where the depth got down to 13.8 ft at high tide which would be about 7.8 feet at low tide. Other than that the depths were good. At high tide there was a medium-sized cruiser cutting from Elba cutoff to the south channel directly through the very shallow charted water.
Jean Thomason