The posting below from Captain John Haluska (copied from the AGLCA list) is very interesting, and contains a lot of useful cruising tips if you decide to go offshore along the Georgia coastline. However, let me make it crystal clear that neither I, nor anyone here at the Cruisers’ Net, is recommending the use of Wassaw Sound Inlet (see below). The one time I even had the nerve to take a look at this passage, we turned around and got out of there as quickly as possible!

Last year we were traveling though that area and were very worried about passing all of the low spots just before high tide and still being able to make a marina for the night. The tide cycle was not in our favor. We had good weather and decide to go outside. (Four looper boats)
The channel out of St Simon is great, no problem. Now it was where to duck back in. We were all trawlers and no one was anxious to do an overnighter. To make a long story short we called Thunderbolt Marine and they told us to come back in at Wassaw Sound Inlet. The chart does not show adequate buoys at that inlet, but the marina assured us that there were four more buoys to lead you from the sea-buoy to the charted buoys on the river. Just to be careful I called the Coast Guard and they confirmed the same.
The entrance turned out to be a piece of cake with one caveat. We navigated to the sea-buoy and then could not see any buoys. Talk about a bad feeling. Then I noticed on our radar one extra blip and
it turns out the the first buoy is very small and is located back to the southwest of the sea-buoy. We were far enough out that we went right by it on our way to the sea-buoy. We backtracked to that buoy
and then could see the next buoy to the North, and then from there the next buoy turned us West and into the mouth of the river. The river runs right up to the ICW and intersects just to the south of
Thunderbolt Marina. The run will let you pass most of the low spots in GA.
Safe Travels
John Haluska
M/V Emery El
DeFever 49 RPH