Our good friends and frequent SSECN contributors, Captains Peg and Jim Healey, have sent us up-to-the-minute depth findings on the southwesterly section of the Ashepoo – Coosaw Cutoff AICW Problem Stretch. This man-made canal connects the AICW between Rock Creek and the Coosaw River.
On 7/31/13, we published one of many reports by fellow cruisers that soundings had deteriorated at the southwestern tip of the Cutoff (see /?p=120036).

Sanctuary draws 4-1/4 feet. We transited the Ashpoo-Coosaw cut on Novenber 2, 2013, at 13h15, which was 1h20 before low tide, +0.9′ datum on the tide almanac. This was not a period of celestial high/low tides.
The Ashpoo-Coosaw cut consists of two parts. The problem part is the southern cut, located between Rock Creek and the Coosaw River. The very worst part is at the point where the cut joins/enters the Coosaw River.
In the southern Ashpoo-Coosaw cut, however, we saw actual depths of 4.9′ mid-channel at G’179.’ Then again, maybe 4.7′ just south of R’184′ G’185.’ The most current advice we found was to favor the red center-quarter of the channel at R’184′ G’185.’ We took that advice, and we got through. Very skinny water.
Peg and Jim Healy aboard Sanctuary

Click Here To View the Cruisers’ Net’s “AICW Problem Stretches” Listing For the Ashepoo – Coosaw Cutoff

Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To This AICW Problem Stretch