[EXPIRED] Masonboro Inlet and Shinn Creek (Statute Mile 282)
Statute Mile 282 ‘“ who has navigated Shinn Creek, from AICW marker #129, to Masonboro Inlet? Did you find sufficient depths in Shinn Creek? What about Masonboro Inlet itself? Please describe you passage through this inlet, and what you observed.
Responses follow:
Claiborne,
After a rough night at sea, from New Bern to Bald Head Island, we went in Masonboro Inlet a little before 8:00 am. There was a crane, rock barge, and tug in the inlet. Only comment is you need to be lined up straight to the inlet before you get there to see the location of the small buoys that mark the channel, follow them at mid channel depth about 14 feet (min).
At the marker for Banks Channel, green/red (I think ) “WC” look for the green straight ahead (#1), ignore the water to the left, continue on past green 3 and look for a small green can (?) which is 129 AICW, as another guide suggested take this as a green for Shinn creek, pass on left with good clearance and you are in the ICW. It looked confusing as I approached because of the house behind it. I thought it might be a private buoy, but read the number when I got close enough.
The depth was not a problem minimum at least 10 feet.
Bob,
S/V Pneuma
In late April 2013 we used the Mott Channel to enter the anchorage by the bridge in Wrightsville Beach. Late the following afternoon we navigated the Banks Channel and the Masonboro Inlet. The channel and the Inlet were well marked and easily navigated. We did notice the barge, but at that time it was anchored at the junction of the Shinn Creek and Banks Channel. We didn’t see any depths less than six feet.
Jim Murtha
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