Good Vertical Clearance Found at Three Mile/I-295 Bridge, St. Johns River, Jacksonville, FL
The Three Mile/I-295 Bridge crosses the St. Johns south of Beauclerc Bluff and unlighted daybeacon #9 and south of the Jacksonville Naval Air Station.
On Friday, passed through the three-mile-295 bridge (aka the Buckman Bridge) with inches to spare at height of 67′ at almost low tide. The gauge read 66+. The tide range up there is only about 2-3 feet.
I think the report of 63 feet in the listing of the bridge must have been at a Spring Tide high water mark. Because of the report we went through at a COG of about 1/4 knot, against a still vigorous tidal current, expecting to tickle the lower beams of the bridge with our VHF antenna and hoping for nothing worse. Never touched!
Click Here To View the Cruisers’ Net’s Eastern Florida Bridge Directory Listing For I-295 Bridge
Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To the Location of I-295 Bridge
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