If you know or have seen Wayne Shosie, please contact SSECN or Laurel Long at the info below.
Hello, I’m trying to contact Wayne Shosie on MV “Blue Max”. I’ve been told he is in the anchorage at Boot Key Harbor City Marina Marathon, FL.
Thanks for any assistance you can give.
Contact info: Laurel Long
904-472-5546
laurel382@gmail.com
This intersection was dredged in early 2016 (/154951) and a Nav Alert (/158529) was posted in July re shoaling here. But, as Mark and Leslie Fields report, Hermine may have further altered the channel. Thank you Mark for this warning!
Hi, just a note to help those who are starting south. We are traveling southbound (I know, we’re early!) on SV Valkyrie, a Cal 34 with a 5′ draft. On Thursday, Sept. 8, we ran hard aground in what should have been the middle of the ICW channel where it intersects Mason Inlet (south of the Figure 8 Island Bridge at Marker 121). There is apparently severe shoaling from the recent storm. We were unable to get loose without calling for assistance. TowBoat US had to work hard to get us off the sand shoal, but we were able to continue our journey.
Boaters passing through that area should be aware that they must hug the private docks adjacent to the inlet intersection and give the green marks plenty of room to port when headed south.
We took the other inlet intersections slowly and cautiously and didn’t have more problems through that stretch (currently just south of Southport NC).
Regards,
Mark and Leslie Fields
SV Valkyrie, Southbound ICW
Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To the Location of Mason Inlet
This is not new. That entire stretch through there is bad at low tide. I saw it when I went through and back in June/July.
After 16 years of travelling the ICW in both directions forward looking sonar, aka scanning sonar, is something I recommend for the whole of the ICW, one of the World’s Wonders, sadly abused and neglected.
Thank you for the report. It would be very helpful to have a date,time and tide height. This is a known trouble spot.
We all know what it’s like trying to solve issues without a manual for an older, but perfectly usable, piece of equipment. If you can suggest a source for this particular life raft manual, please let us hear from you. Larry and SSECN will sincerely appreciate your help.
Good morning,
I am wondering if you could help me locate a manual for my life raft. I have a Givens 6 man life raft that is 9 years old and I need an owners manual. I am wondering if you or any of your readers might have one where I could get a copy of it?
Larry Fansler
Definitely not a good day!! He should have drunk plain old Sweet Tea!
Boater admits to drinking Long Island Ice Teas before stranding 72-foot yacht on Palm Beach
WPTV Webteam
8:56 AM, Sep 7, 2016
1 min ago
Man admitted to drinking Long Island Ice Teas
PALM BEACH, Fla. – A boater, who said he had been drinking Long Island Ice Teas before the incident, was arrested Wednesday morning after an 80-foot yacht washed ashore on Palm Beach.
Thomas Henry Baker, 63, Belle Isle, Fla., a suburb of Orlando, told police he “failed to navigate his vessel into the Palm Beach Inlet and ran the vessel into the beach.”
The 72-foot yacht named “Time Out” was spotted floating at the shoreline right next to the Palm Beach Inlet.
CLICK HERE for the full report from WPTV.COM
Douglas Road Landing is on the east side of the Canal, south of Deep Creek Lock. Its new dock and facilities would make a convenient emergency stopover in a storm or other temporary situation. Our thanks to Bill Spaur for this notice and photo.
The drinking fountain and restrooms at Douglas Road Landing, Dismal Swamp Canal, are open. The Landing is between Army Corps of Engineers Statute mile markers 18 and 19.
Bill Spaur
You only have to spend a short time talking with Randy Mims to know that he has the soul of a true sailor. Randy not only built his 27ft gaff-rigged cutter, Ideath, but each year he single-hands the cutter from North Carolina to the Northern Gulf Coast and back again. “Ideath” is pronounced Idea-th and loosely translates as “house of ideas”. Randy stops along the way to visit maritime museums and, indulging his passion for music, he volunteers to sing in church choirs along the way. He also takes time to share his travels with his friends and has agreed to allow Cruisers Net to post his emails. For more photos and more on Randy, go to http://towndock.net/shippingnews/ideath?pg=1 from TownDock.net in Oriental. See previous installment: /156986.
Randy Mims
soul of a true sailor and, as you will read in the log below, he is the very essence of the DYI! Randy not only built his 27ft gaff-rigged cutter, Ideath, but each year he single-hands the cutter from North Carolina to the Northern Gulf Coast and back again. “Ideath” is pronounced Idea-th and loosely translates as “house of ideas”. Randy stops along the way to visit maritime museums and, indulging his passion for music, he volunteers to sing and play in church choirs along the way. He also takes time to share his travels with his friends and has agreed to allow SSECN to post his emails. For more photos and more on Randy, go to http://towndock.net/shippingnews/ideath?pg=1 from TownDock.net in Oriental, NC. See previous installment: /157772.
Dear Friends,
Let me begin by apologizing to everyone that does not follow me on Facebook or Youtube for not sending a text update when I arrived back in Apalachicola. I posted a video about the nice sail from St. Pete to Apalach but forgot to tell everyone that I had made it. OOPS! Since I arrived, I have been playing a lot of music. In addition to practicing four instruments for half an hour each almost every day, I have played at the Apalachicola Farmer’s Market and various Open Mics. Of course I have resumed doing a Prelude for the church service every other Sunday and play flute along with the organ on the Processional and Recessional. I hope everyone had a great summer. It seems strange that just when you get the faintest hint that fall is actually going to get here that Hurricane season get’s the most active. Back is 2002 I went across the creek from the dock at low tide and cut a hole in the marsh grass. On what I remember as probably the hottest day there ever was, I dug a three foot deep hole that measured three feet by two feet. Out each end of this hole I dug a trench two feet deep that was about a foot wide and eight feet long. Into this trench a went a “landscape timber”. Around this timber I fastened a length of five-eights inch chain. Into the big hole (which of course was beginning to fill with the tide coming back in) I mixed eight ninety pound bags of concrete mix. This produced about a six hundred pound anchor with which to hold the boat out in the creek and off the dock when the storm surge actually gets higher than the dock. When I got back this time I noticed that the buoy that marked the end of the chain was missing. Investigating I found that over the years the massive chain had melted into something that wouldn’t hold a rowboat in place. It took weeks for there to be a low tide that wasn’t in the middle of the night. Thankfully last week the tide was right at about seven thirty one evening. With shovel and post hole digger and a piece of 3/4 inch nylon anchor line that I had prepared with a loop spliced in one end and a thimble spliced into the other I paddled across the creek not looking forward to what I had to do. Actually I had my doubts if it would even be possible. But with a positive attitude and only about an hour and a half till dark, I dug a hole on the side of the block away from the creek and a smaller hole down beside the block on the creek side and lying face down in the mud I began trying to push a drain cleaning snake through the mud under the anchor from one hole to the other. I lost track of how many tries it took but with the light failing I hit the other hole. Hallaluja!! I had my anchor back. This proved to be a very good thing. Depression Nine about which the weather service didn’t seem to have a clue did indeed become a hurricane though thankfully not a powerful one and came right to Apalachicola. I spent last night with IDEATH tied to the dock and fore and aft to the anchor across the creek and with an anchor down the creek. Every hour (until the barometer started going back up) and then every two hours I went out into the thirty to fifty mile an hour wind and the DRIVING rain and checked and adjusted lines and was thankful that the storm wasn’t worse. I love living on the boat. It is not always Fun and Relaxing, but NOTHING is more beautiful than the sunrise after a storm. The air is completely clean and the world is peaceful and new.
Peace and Love to you All,
Randy
A warning to cruisers on the Miami- Biscayne Bay waters: take preventative measures to avoid mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes test positive for Zika virus in Miami-Dade, state says
CLICK HERE for this report from wptv.com, West Palm Beach, FL
Bridge Pointe Marina flanks the southern banks of the Trent River off the Neuse River, opposite the downtown New Bern, NC waterfront.
What a great place to keep your vessel. I have enjoyed the Marina and its staff, they are always helpful and Jesse (dock-master) is always willing to help any way he can with any issue that may arise. I would like to tip my hat to Bridgepointe Marina for having such a great place to keep my Boat.
Many thanks for you guys keeping on top of things.
Tim L Mitchell
Click Here To View the North Carolina Cruisers’ Net Marina Directory Listing For Bridge Point Marina
Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To the Location of Bridge Pointe Marina
This area of shallow water is at the south end of the Estherville Minim Creek Canal which begins at the Waterway’s exit southward from Winyah Bay.
SOUTH CAROLINA – AICW – MYRTLE GROVE SOUND AND CAPE FEAR RIVER TO CASINO CREEK – WINYAH BAY – CHARLESTON HARBOR: Depth of Channel.
The U.S. Coast Guard has found at low-tide depths of less than 5ft of water in the middle of the channel between Winyah Bay-Charleston Harbor Channel Light 4 (LLNR 34120 [33°11.7192N / 079°16.3300W, 33.195320 / -79.272167]) and Winyah Bay-Charleston Harbor Daybeacon 5 (LLNR 34125 [33°11.4410N / 079°16.5012W, 33.190683 / -79.275020]). Mariners are advised to use caution while transiting the area. Chart 11532, 11534 LNM 35/16
Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To A “Navigation Alert” Position at Minim Creek Canal
In 2015 Robert and Ann Sherer published their first ICW Cruising Guide, which has received 5 star ratings (see /150181) and have recently published their 2016 edition of their excellent guide (see /159063).
Now, as they have in the past, the Sherers graciously share their research with SSECN readers.
The author’s comments:
The information should certainly be interesting to your readers for those contemplating a trip down the ICW this fall. There have been some dramatic changes to the ICW by inlets in North Carolina as measured by the Wilmington ACOE surveys. I’ve also included GPX routes recommended by the Wilmington ACOE District as part of the article.
Bob
CLICK HERE for the most recent Sherer blog report on Waterway shoaling.
The article can also be downloaded in Word format at:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-XC5pePZB9BaXpLcU1Kb1RUVEk
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If you are looking for jarhead Wayne he is on the hard at Marathon ship yard my #7154989535