Author, researcher and contributor Kevin Duffus shares his findings that depict the the story of what he calls “America’s lighthouse” and the people connected to it. See also Restoration.
History Illuminated: Hatteras Light’s 150 Years
Coastal Review Online
Historic Photos Celebrate 150 Years of Light
Coastal Review Online
The truth about Blackbeard’s Battle at Ocracoke conflicts with popular interpretations and numerous published accounts, according to author Kevin Duffus.
“Battle at Ocracoke,” painting by American artist Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1920.
Blackbeard’s Final Battle: Sorting Facts, Fiction
Coastal Review Online
Silver Lake is Ocracoke Harbor and these two entrance markers are immediately south of the maintained channel into Silver Lake’s inlet.
| 1. THE FOLLOWING AIDS TO NAVIGATION HAVE BEEN RELOCATED.
A. SILVER LAKE JUNCTION LIGHT SL (LLNR 28985 [35°6.6266N / 075°59.5121W, 35.110443 / -75.991868]) RELOCATED TO APPROX POSIT 35-06-37.633N,
B. SILVER LAKE ENTRANCE DAYBEACON 2 (LLNR 28990 [35°6.4777N / 075°59.4183W, 35.107962 / -75.990305]) RELOCATED TO APPROX POSIT 35-06-28.552N, 075-59-25.205W. |
My wife and I once spent a very pleasant three days in Elizabeth City waiting for the winds to drop allowing the long swing bridge to open. The 2.8-mile bridge across the Alligator River has closed several times in recent years to undergo repairs.
Lindsay C. Warren Bridge. Photo: Kill Devil Hills
Officials Push to Replace Alligator River Bridge
Coastal Review Online
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This excellent facility and CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, Southport Marina, was severely damaged by Isaias. See Hurricane Damage. As of November 6, they have resumed selling gasoline and diesel fuel.
We’re excited to announce that Southport Marina has resumed gasoline and diesel sales daily, from 8am-5pm. We are monitoring VHF ch. 16, phone 910-457-9900, and email info@southport-marina.com for any questions or needs. Although it will still be some time before we are able to accommodate overnight dockage for transiting guests, we would love to sell you the best quality marine fuel available while you’re in our town. Thank you for your patience while we continue to rebuild our facility! We’re looking forward to the opportunity to serve our customers again soon!
Hank Whitley, CMM
Marina Manager
Southport Marina
606 W. West St.
Southport, NC 28461
910-457-9900
View our live webcam at https://www.youtube.com/user/SouthportMarina
Click Here To View the North Carolina Cruisers Net Marina Directory Listing For Southport Marina
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Our thanks to Phil and Karen for sharing their AGLCA Forum posting with our readers. Many of you will travel through Snows Cut at some point in your cruising lifetime. Mile long Snows Cut departs the coastal Waterway at the entrance to Carolina Beach and intersects Cape Fear River at Mile 296.
Living on the ICW, it’s amazing the number of boats we see every day heading south for the winter. 20, 30 a day perhaps, and we only see some of them. Trawlers, sailboats, large yachts and other craft, a few with looper flags but mostly snowbirds. Most loopers know Snow’s Cut, a few miles south of us, as a tricky waterway that connects the Cape Fear River with the ICW at Carolina Beach.
Though interesting, few good photos of this area exist. It’s difficult to get decent photos as you’re transiting it as you’re busy navigating a narrow, tricky channels with a 2 or 3 knot current. On a recent bike ride over the Snow’s Cut bridge, I took a few photos that might give our captains a good overview of the mile-long man-made cut.
Phil & Karen Barbalace
Helms Port
Wilmington,NC
Gold Loopers
Phil Kent and Karen Barbalace
Phil Kent and Karen Barbalace
Phil Kent and Karen Barbalace
Thanks for the great photos… Pictures are certainly worth a thousand words.
An important reminder for our North Carolina locals and for off-shore cruisers. Local knowledge is recommended for most for these inlets.
NC – HAZARDS OF NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL INLETS
Hazardous inlets. To heighten public awareness about the hazards that exist in and around the North Carolina coast, this information is provided to mariners. Shoaling conditions exist at following North Carolina coastal inlets:
Oregon Inlet
Hatteras Inlet
Ocracoke Inlet
Barden Inlet
Beaufort Inlet
Bogue Inlet
New River Inlet
Topsail Inlet
Masonboro Inlet
Carolina Beach Inlet
Lockwoods Folly Inlet
Shallotte Inlet
Shoaling conditions increase the potential for groundings. These inlets are subject to continual and sometimes rapid environmental changes. Mariners are highly encouraged to obtain the most recent U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington, North Carolina District hydrographic survey information, centerline waypoints and controlling depth at: http://www.saw.usace.army.mil/Missions/Navigation/HydrographicSurveys.aspx
Mariners should use caution when navigating in these areas and passage through the inlets is not recommended without local knowledge of the area. The aids to navigation in these inlets may not be charted and may not be marking best water due to continually shifting shoals. Consult Local Notice to Mariners, 5th Coast Guard District for the latest positions and status of aids to navigation:
https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=lnmDistrict®ion=5
To report any aids to navigation discrepancies (missing, damaged, off station, extinguished lights), shoaling, hazards to navigation, or discrepancies on bridge lighting, please contact Sector North Carolina Command Center (910) 343-2200.
The North Carolina Estuarium in Washington, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, is exploring an essential element — water — with the Water/Ways traveling exhibition, a part of Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program.
Estuarium Dives into the Necessity of Water
Coastal Review Online
For two days and nights in October 1878, the 11th hurricane of the season thrashed the North Carolina coast and ships offshore, with dramatic ocean rescues and loss of life.
Great Gale of 1878 Brought Nights of Terror
Coastal Review Online
Until his recent untimely death, Robert Peek served as Lockmaster of Deep Creek Lock on the Dismal Swamp Canal for 24 years. See In Memorium Robert Peek. Our thanks to Donna Steward, Director of Dismal Swamp Welcome Center and longtime friend, for sharing this 2012 Facebook article on a typical day in Robert’s life.
Great Dismal Swamp – The Life of a Lockmaster
Kathy Bohanan Enzerink
It was a very nice person we enjoyed this lock and it is parts of our best lock souvenir. Rest in peace
The stories of Robert Peek’s “customer relations” are indeed legendary throughout the cruising community. Here is a man who loved his job and did not hesitate to share that love with boaters locking through Deep Creek Lock. Our thanks to Donna Stewart of Dismal Swamp Welcome Center for this notice and to Kim Russo of AGLCA for sharing Robert’s obituary.
Our hearts are heavy, as we mourn the loss of our dear friend and colleague, Deep Creek Lockmaster Robert Peek. Please keep his beloved wife Jackie and family, friends and co-workers in your thoughts in this time of loss. No one will ever fill his shoes.
Robert of Deep Creek Lock squeezed 18 boats in the lock yesterday – we were like sardines in a can. I found the whole thing quite hilarious! Arnold Parkinson
Robert smiling.
Robert getting ready to play his conch shell, for which he was famous. Phil and Karen Barbalace
Robert Leslie Peek Obituary
Sturtevant Funderal Home
If you met Robert once, you were a friend. For life. We met, chatted with and were invited to breakfast several times. He was generous with his time, his knowledge and, of course, coffee and danish. Because of storms, dredging and lock repairs we were unable to take the Dismal for couple of years. We were looking forward to seeing Robert this year. Shocked and saddened by this news. It is a terrible loss for the entire boating/cruising community. Our best wishes and condolences to Jackie and his entire family.
Mike and Carol
Improbability
A longtime CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, Edenton always has an exciting calendar of events including safe activities during the coronavirus pandemic. Edenton is at the mouth of the Chowan River on the northwest shore of Albemarle Sound.
Fall Colors, Cooler Temps & Edenton Nature at its Best
Click Here To Open A Chart View Window Zoomed To the Location of Edenton Harbor City Docks
The popular Cape Lookout Bight anchorage is practically in the shadow of Cape Lookout Lighthouse. In rough offshore weather, cruisers with shallow draft may choose to access the anchorage via Taylor Creek and Barden Inlet which separates Shackleford Banks and Core Banks. These shallow, sparsely marked waters require a constant eye on the depth finder.
Lookout Closer to Becoming Dark Sky Park
Coastal Review Online
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Cruisers Net is proud to be a member of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association whose lobbying work is crucial to keeping the Waterway navigable. Your membership dollars directly support their vital work. Please join and encourage your boating neighbors to do likewise, regardless of their homeport.
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This inlet channel buoy is on the east side of the Cutoff range between Fort Macon and Shackleford Pt.
1. THE FOLLOWING AID TO NAVIGATION HAS BEEN RELOCATED.
A. BEAFORT INLET LIGHTED BUOY 14 (LLNR 29370 [34°41.5102N / 076°40.0486W, 34.691837 / -76.667476]) TO APPROX POSIT 34-41-32.789N,076-40-05.587W (34°41.5465N / 076°40.0931W, 34.692441 / -76.668219) .
The second in a two-part series by author Kevin Duffus takes readers along with the Cape Fear lifesavers to save the crew from the wreckage of the Charles C. Dame on Frying Pan Shoals.
Cape Fear Lifesavers’ Daring 1893 Rescue
Coastal Review Online
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Author Kevin Duffus takes readers to the 1890s in this two-part series that looks at the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the daring rescues during dangerous storms by its crews on the North Carolina coast.
Saving the Crew of the Charles C. Dame
Coastal Review Online
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Oyster lovers will tell you that Carolina oysters are extra special. It is great that these oyster beds in Pamlico Sound are being regrown. The North Carolina Coastal Federation is partnering with the state Division of Marine Fisheries to add 15 acres of new oyster reef habitat in Pamlico Sound.
Pamlico Oyster Reef Habitat to Grow 15 Acres
Coastal Review Online
The beautiful Oak Island area is also home to three CRUISERS NET SPONSORS: Southport Marina, Deep Point Marina and Bald Head Island Marina – three more reasons to visit Oak Island. See Annual Oak Island Lighthouse Run for a rescheduled fall event.
15 Reasons To Visit Beautiful Oak Island, NC
TravelAwaits
All of these relocated buoys are in the shallow waters near Hatteras Inlet.
CCGD5 BNM 492-20
NC CAPE HATTERAS – HATTERAS INLET (CHART 11555)
1. THE FOLLOWING AID TO NAVIGATION HAS BEEN RELOCATED.
A. BARNEY SLOUGH CHANNEL BUOY 3A (LLNR 28721.6 [35°13.4891N / 075°47.2234W, 35.224819 / -75.787057]) HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO APPROX. POSITION 35-13.391N 075-47-14.176W (35°13.3910N / 075°47.2363W, 35.223183 / -75.787271)
CCGD5 BNM 493-20
NC CAPE HATTERAS – HATTERAS INLET (CHART 11555)
1. THE FOLLOWING AID TO NAVIGATION HAS BEEN RELOCATED.
A. HATTERAS INLET BUOY 12B (LLNR 28733.1 [35°12.2021N / 075°43.9067W, 35.203369 / -75.731778]) HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO APPROX. POSITION 35-12-11.824N, 075-43-55.492W (35°12.1970N / 075°43.9249W, 35.203284 / -75.732081)
CCGD5 BNM 491-20
NC CAPE HATTERAS – HATTERAS INLET (CHART 11555)
1. THE FOLLOWING AID TO NAVIGATION HAS BEEN RELOCATED.
A. HATTERAS INLET CHANNEL LIGHT 19A (LLNR 28765 [35°12.2594N / 075°43.2737W, 35.204323 / -75.721228].1) HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO APPROX. POSITION 35-12-22.182N, 075-43-15.216W (35°12.3697N / 075°43.2536W, 35.206162 / -75.720893) .
B. HATTERAS INLET CHANNEL LIGHTED BUOY 12A (LLNR 28732 [35°12.6338N / 075°43.9497W, 35.210563 / -75.732495].1) HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO APPROX. POSITION 35-12-19.060N, 075-43-54.971W (35°12.3176N / 075°43.9162W, 35.205294 / -75.731936) .
C. HATTERAS INLET CHANNEL LIGHT 19 (LLNR 28765 [35°12.2594N / 075°43.2737W, 35.204323 / -75.721228]) HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO APPROX. POSITION 35-12-14.587N, 075-43-16.377W (35°12.2431N / 075°43.2730W, 35.204052 / -75.721216) .
D. HATTERAS INLET CHANNEL LIGHTED BUOY 12 (LLNR 28732 [35°12.6338N / 075°43.9497W, 35.210563 / -75.732495]) HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO APPROX. POSITION 35-12-36.785N, 075-43-55.362W (35°12.6131N / 075°43.9227W, 35.210218 / -75.732045) .
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