Statute Mile: 511.5
Lat/Lon: 32 33.733 North/080 24.611 West
Location: off the southwesterly mouth of Alligator Creek (South Edisto River), north of unlighted daybeacon #157
Minimum Depth: 7 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 50 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Fair to Poor; wide open to southern, southeastern and southwestern winds
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Lower St. Pierre Creek Anchorage
Lat/Lon: 32 32.334 North/080 21.099 West
Location: St. Pierre Creek makes in to the northeastern banks of South Edisto River well southeast of marker #3; this anchorage is found where St. Pierre Creek begins its first slow swing to the east, and the western and northwestern banks border the high land of Bailey Island
Minimum Depth: 10 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 60 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Fair, somewhat open to southern and eastern winds
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Fishing Creek Anchorage (off St. Pierre Creek)
Lat/Lon: 32 32.210 North/080 20.620 West
Location: St. Pierre Creek makes in to the northeastern banks of South Edisto River well southeast of marker #3; Fishing Creek splits off from St. Pierre Creek at Peters Point; this anchorage is found just downstream of Fishing Creek’s intersection with St. Pierre Creek, where the high ground of Peters Point borders the northeastern banks
Minimum Depth: 7 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 32 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Very good, only strong southeasterly and northwesterly winds should be a problem
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Bailey Creek – St. Pierre Creek Anchorage
Lat/Lon: 32 33.244 North/080 21.327 West
Location: St. Pierre Creek makes in to the northeastern banks of South Edisto River well southeast of marker #3; Bailey Creek branches off from St. Pierre Creek about 1 nautical mile north of Peters Point; this anchorage is found on the section of Bailey Creek which fronts the northern shore of Bailey Island, where chart 11517 indicates a sounding of 11 feet
Minimum Depth: 7 feet
Special Note: there is at least one unmarked shoal to avoid between Bailey Creek’s intersection with St. Pierre Creek, and this anchorage. Use of a GPS chartplotter to help avoid these hazards is strongly recommended
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 35 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Very good, only strong southeasterly and northwesterly winds should be a problem
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Bailey Creek – Store Creek – St. Pierre Creek Lower Anchorage
Lat/Lon: 32 33.068 North/080 19.846 West
Location: St. Pierre Creek makes in to the northeastern banks of South Edisto River well southeast of marker #3; Store Creek branches out to the east from its intersection with St. Pierre and Bailey Creeks; this anchorage is found within the body of the hairpin loop encountered soon after entering the creek
Minimum Depth: 8 to 11 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 40 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Very good
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Bailey Creek – Store Creek – St. Pierre Creek Middle Anchorage
Lat/Lon: 32 33.381 North/080 19.782 West
Location: St. Pierre Creek makes in to the northeastern banks of South Edisto River well southeast of marker #3; Store Creek branches out to the east from its intersection with St. Pierre and Bailey Creeks; this anchorage is found as the creek heads back toward the southeast upstream of its first hairpin turn
Minimum Depth: 8 to 17 feet
Special Note: this anchorage lies within close sight of historic Chisolm Plantation House
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 38 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Excellent
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Store Creek – St. Pierre Creek Upper Anchorage
Lat/Lon: 32 33.081 North/080 19.008 West
Location: St. Pierre Creek makes in to the northeastern banks of South Edisto River well southeast of marker #3; Store Creek branches out to the east from its intersection with St. Pierre and Bailey Creeks; this anchorage is found northwest of the creek’s third bend, just before the stream heads northeast
Minimum Depth: 8 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 38 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Good, unless fresh winds are blowing from the northwest
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Statute Mile: 513
Lat/Lon: 32 33.403 North/080 26.822 West
Location: Mosquito Creek off of the northeastern banks of the Ashepoo River, some 1.5 nautical miles upstream from the ICW’s track on Ashepoo River; anchorage lies abeam of tiny Musselboro Creek’s southern mouth
Minimum Depth: approach depths of 5 feet at MLW, but be warned that you will have to cruise over a sunken wreck to reach this haven
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 42 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Excellent
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Statute Mile: 513
Lat/Lon: 32 33.083 North/080 28.508 West
Location: anchorage lies 1.5 nautical miles west of the Ashepoo ‘“ Mosquito Creek intersection, just east of the river’s slow, charted bend to the northwest
Minimum Depth: 14+ feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 50 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Poor; fair weather anchorage only
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Statute Mile: 516
Lat/Lon:32 31.730 North/080 28.978 West
Location: on the waters of Rock Creek north, northwest of the intersection with the southeasternmost portion of the Ashepoo Coosaw Cutoff
Minimum Depth: 6 to 11 feet
Special Note: Depths in Rock Creek are radically mischarted on 11518. Grounding can now be expected if you attempt to approach the stream’s first turn to the northeast, where 11518 shows a 22-foot sounding. Be SURE to anchor well south of this northeasterly turn, favoring the eastern banks in order to avoid the correctly charted shallows making out from Rock Creek’s western shoreline. Use of a GPS chartplotter is recommended to avoid unmarked shoals abutting the banks of Rock Creek
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels ranging from 42 to 45 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Excellent
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We anchored after the northeast turn. There is a shallow section on the starboard side the channel right where you approach the first trees along the bank. The port side has 15 to 18 feet of water with 7 to 8 feet at 1 hour before low tide past the turn getting shallow on the starboard tide of the creek past the turn. We anchored in 6.5 feet of water 250 meters past the turn. We were having 20 to 22 kt of wind from the north which calmed down to 12 to 15 behind the trees.
Statute Mile: 521
Lat/Lon: 32 28.825 North/080 32.513 West
Location: Parrot Creek cuts into the southern banks of the Coosaw River, west of flashing daybeacon #87; Bass Creek makes into the eastern banks of Parrot Creek south of this stream’s intersection with the Coosaw River, between markers #3 and #4
Minimum Depth: 7-feet
Swing Room: Sufficient room for vessels as large as 38 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Very good
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Statute Mile: 523.5
Lat/Lon: 32 29.406 North/080 35.767 West
Location: lies northeast of Sams Point and the northern entrance of Lucy Point Creek
Minimum Depth: 10+ feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for almost any size pleasurecraft
Foul Weather Shelter: Poor; fair weather anchorage ONLY
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Statute Mile: 530
Lat/Lon: 32 29.295 North/080 41.206 West
Location: on the waters of the charted, but unnamed loop creek making into Brickyard Creek’s easterly banks abeam of marker #216
Minimum Depth: 8-foot depths, if and only if entered by way of the loop’s southern entrance
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 34 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Good
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Statute Mile: 533.5
Lat/Lon: 32 27.315 North/080 40.638 West
Location: on the offshoot of deep water abutting the northern banks of Brickyard Creek north of unlighted daybeacon #229A
Minimum Depth: 8+ feet, but channel is unmarked
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 45 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Fair; open to eastern, southeastern and northwestern winds
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Statute Mile: 536.5
Lat/Lon: 32 25.254 North/080 39.133 West
Location: on the waters of Factory Creek, northeast of Lady’s Island Marina, in the body of the stream’s sharp bend to the north
Minimum Depth: 10 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 42 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Very good
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Statute Mile: 536.5
Lat/Lon: 32 25.804 North/080 40.592 West
Location: lies on the waters west of Downtown Beaufort Marina, east of flashing daybeacon #240
Minimum Depth: 12+ feet
Special Comment: After 72 hours vessels in this anchorage must register at the Downtown Marina
Swing Room: sufficient room for virtually any size of pleasurecraft
Foul Weather Shelter: Fair to Good; open to strong southwesterly blows
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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…
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I’ve been here on two occasions, the first time during a howling northwest wind of 35 to 40 MPH and ducked in between the sand bar and shore in about 12 feet of water, just up from the cut. The trees did a great job of sheltering me from the wind and waves.
The second time was in March of 2013, the wind was howling from the southeast, and the tide was screaming out. I anchored in the same location and it became real bumpy. Nice place, though.
Dropped the hook off Alligator Creek on an ebbing tide, and glad I anchored off. There was no water in the creek at dead low tide. Watch your depth finder and guage how much water will be there at low tide before you drop the hook. Having said there, there is still a great deal room for boats that need 8 – 10 feet of water. Just don’t try the creek. Superb views, good mud bottom. My CQR held great in the currents. Just use the proper scope. Coming out the next morning, I decided to “eyeball” Fields Cut before entering, and was very glad I did. Two tugboats entered the cut, one pulling a dredge, the other a quarter mile of pipe. There was a sailboat at anchor at the edge of the ICW, and he got many blasts from the horn of the lead tug. The anchorage designated in the illustration is very clear, and is a great spot.