The New Bern Grand Marina lies in the heart of downtown New Bern, North Carolina, along Trent River’s northern banks between the low-level Trent River highway and railroad bridges.
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Hague Marina is located in a sheltered loop on the Waterway’s southern shore some 2.4 nautical miles southwest of the Myrtle Beach high-rise and railroad bridge.
They had a fantastic ships store but it burned. Owner is making do right now with small office building.
Fabrication shop and tools were not damaged in fire, so they can still do anything you need. Not fancy, but gets job done. My brother worked there from 1972-2013. He quit to be a Restaurant Chef.
Frederick
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The Hague is a dump. Don’t get on the docks or you risk injury. Avoid at all cost. Unreliable power and water you shouldn’t drink. The owner is not concerned about “customer service” and is only interested in an offer for the property. The previous poster obviously had a misplaced loyalty to the owner…
Could you please respond in more detail about your experience with Hague Marina, and especially why you say, “don’t drink the water.”
Here is an unusual question for you armchair lawyers. Have any of you experienced such “aquatic squatting”? If you have suggestions, let us hear from you.
My question is how can one retain rights to a mooring and the tackle that she has put on it? I purchased a houseboat on a mooring off Islamorada, Florida Keys. I added chain and anchors and tackle to it and a mooring ball with my FL numbers. I used the houseboat for days at a time, but was not a full-time liveaboard. I left the mooring to spend a few months at a marina ashore in order to perform needed repairs. Now there is a man that hooked up to my mooring tackle and refuses to move. What can I do about it?
Captain Anne Baxter
I have contacted both the Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Friday. Yesterday I spoke with the FFWCC woman. She had checked on it and said that the Basin had been declared a sanctuary and that no one could moor or anchor in it. However there are already several boats on private moorings in there. One man had been there for 20 years. My houseboat was already on a private mooring when I bought it 5 years ago. She said the FFWCC will do nothing about this man’s takeover of my mooring and use of my mooring tackle. She said it is a civil matter. I asked why if someone car was stolen, the cops would search for the car and arrest the thief. My mooring tackle is still there but this person is using it and so perhaps it is a trespassing issue? Does anyone out there have any suggestions?
Bad news for motorists, good news for boaters – at least until inevitable repairs begin. With a closed vertical clearance of 7ft, Little River Swing Bridge crosses the ICW just south of SALTY SOUTHEAST CRUISERS’ NET SPONSOR Harbougate Marina. This Associate Press report comes from The Daily Reporter, Greenfield, Indiana (!!).
A swinging bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway near North Myrtle Beach has been closed after the gearbox that moves the bridge broke.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: June 02, 2016 – 5:48 pm
Last Updated: June 02, 2016 – 5:48 pm
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Bahamas Chatter: Bird Rock light restored
Bird Rock light restored
Posted: 02 Jun 2016 04:18 AM PDT
NOTICE TO MARINERS
(RBDF MAY 30th, 2016) The Aids to Navigation Section of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force wishes to advise mariners that the automatic light at Bird Rock Lighthouse, off Pitt’s Town, Crooked Island has been relit.
The light at Bird Rock is situated at Latitude 22° 50.7’N and Longitude 74° 21.6’W (Charts ACK 1 and ACK 2, pages 57 and 58 Explorer Chartbook Far Bahamas, Sixth Edition).
Any discrepancies with this or any navigational aid should be reported to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force at telephone number 362-4436 or by e-mail at aton@rbdf.gov.bs (For further information contact the RBDF Public Relations Department)
This aid was fixed on 30th May 2016 after being extinguished for some time. Technicians found evidence of vandalism, as the main cable from the batteries was severed by a sharp object and six of the eight solar panels were removed. The cable was reconnected and the technicians had to make do with the remaining two panels. These southern lighthouses are plagued by this sort of thing, rendering the aid extinguished.
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Bahamas Chatter: New species of snake found on Conception Island
New species of snake found on Conception Island
Posted: 31 May 2016 10:47 AM PDT
(from an article in the National Geographic published May 26, 2016)
On an uninhabited island in the southern Bahamas, a scientist noticed a snake that shined like metal as it climbed a tree.
“We all came to take a look at it, and it was instantly clear that this was something different,” says biologist R. Graham Reynolds, part of the scientific team exploring the remote islands.
Expedition member Alberto Puente-Rolón, an expert on Caribbean boas, agreed that the animal appeared unlike any species of known boa.
So the team went searching for more boas, finding four more snakes before settling down to sleep on the beach at Conception Island. But it turns out the boas weren’t ready to call it a night. (See “Extremely Rare Fishing Snakes Discovered.”)
“Sometime around 3:30 in the morning, I woke up to something crawling across my face,” says Reynolds, now a biologist at the University of North Carolina, Asheville.
Another silver boa had come down from the forest and crawled right over him as he slept. They’d located their sixth specimen, and DNA analyses back at the lab confirmed the snake was a new species.
The scientists named the Conception Bank silver boa (Chilabothrus argentum), based on both its color and the fact it was first found on an aptly named silver palm tree. A study on the species appeared in the journal Breviora.
This report comes to us from good friend and avid cruiser, David Burnham, whose home port is Gulfport on Boca Ciega Bay, Gulf Coast. Renegades on the Water is on the eastern shore just south of Fruitland Cove between Little Lake George and Lake George of the St. Johns River.
We cruised our 28′ Catalina sailboat (3’9″ wing keel) down to Renegades Marina and RV park this past weekend. Because Renegades has 4 transient slips next to their GAS and DIESEL dock it should probably be added to the list of St Johns River Marinas. These slips appear to have 4-5′ of water depth although we did not get to sound all of them, only the one we used next to the fuel pier.
WE DID run aground on the shallows west of Renegades while approaching the fuel dock but backed off and came in again just a little to the south between the two charted shallow areas you encounter when coming in to Renegades from the north. Our chart plotter showed 6′ (or less) where we touched the bottom so we added a 3’9″ sounding to our Navionics Android GPS chart…
We ran aground AGAIN as we left Renegades the next afternoon, while following our inbound track on the chart plotter (no, NOT the SAME spot).
The best approach to Renegades if you draw more than 3′ is to go south to the green navigational mark just past Renegades, then turn East and approach from the southwest to stay south of the shallow areas that are to the West of Renegades…
Great Tiki Bar and really good food and drinks… http://renegadesontheriver.com/db/
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JIB Yacht Club is really more of a marina than a club and it flanks the eastern shores of the Waterway, immediately north of Jupiter Inlet.
JIB Yacht Club is a convenient marina to the Jupiter Inlet. Very tight inside the marina. Marina has very helpful staff. However, there is no laundry, no cable TV, no Wi-Fi and the showers/restrooms are in need of upgrades and cleaning. Diesel and gas fuel is available. Pool is very busy on weekends from locals.
Joanne Kindlund
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James Lea’s comments are in response to a recent Local Notice re shoaling at Lockwood Folly. Cape Fear River intersects the Waterway at Mile 309. Little River Inlet lies south and east of the Waterway, right at the NC-SC state line, intersecting the Waterway at Mile 342.
This section of the ICW can be easily avoided in good weather by using Little River and Cape Fear River. Little River is well marked and frequently used by boats of all sizes. The currents in the Cape Fear River can be a challenge, particularly if the wind opposes current, but it is an all-weather entrance.
In six trips up and down the ICW we have never transited this section of the ICW [Lockwood Folly], always enjoying a nice sail while listening to all the VHF chatter about passing and depths. Highly recommended.
James Lea
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Lockwoods Folly passing is no problem at this time! Just follow the markers as they move from time to time. If you want to be extra cautious travel through on a rising tide.
Robert Sherer, author of 2015 ICW Cruising Guide: A guide to navigating the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and frequent contributor to SSECN, has granted us permission to share a link to his Intracoastal Blog: http://fleetwing.blogspot.com/
Especially for those of you heading north for the summer, you will find many informative and entertaining reports on the waterways ahead of you. Such as this discussion of bridge heights near Cape May, NJ.
Bridge Height on the Cape May Canal – 58 ft at MLLW
Is your height less than 58 ft? If so you may be able to take the Cape May canal between Cape May and Delaware Bay. There are three factors to consider:
1 – The tide. It’s simply the predicted tide out of a tide table, easy to find for any time with a charting programs that allows the time to be varied with a display of the tide height. For the bridges, I use the Cape May Harbor tide station since it’s much closer to the two bridges than the ferry terminal station.
2 – The actual vs predicted water level. NOAA maintains a family of tide stations that show the actual water level vs the predicted water level. They are not generally known but there is such a station at the ferry terminal at Cape May. It will display either a graph or a spreadsheet showing the actual vs predicted tide height. Most helpfully, the data can be accessed in real time over the internet at NOAA Cape May water level site. Here’s a shorter link: tinyurl.com/zpzojfc. The water level varies due to weather conditions such as a strong on-shore wind blowing water into the bay or a heavy rain upriver when the flow reaches Cape May. An easterly 15 kt wind will easily raise the water level a foot as will heavy rains up the river. During tropical storms and winds greater than 20 kts the water level can be dramatically higher, 2 to 3 ft or more.
3 – The real bridge height. Unfortunately, data does not support a 55 ft bridge height at high tide provided the height boards are accurate, see photos.
The water level as reported by NOAA at the ferry terminal station was running 0.7 ft above the predicted tide level. There had been heavy rains up the river the day before. So what is the real bridge height? Over the years I’ve used 58 ft at low tide as the starting point for figuring passages. Take a look at the low tide picture. The total water level above MLLW was 0.4 + 0.7 = 1.1 ft. If you add that 1.1 ft to the displayed number on the height board (57.2 ft) then you get pretty close to 58 ft at 0.0 MLLW with no water level delta (actually in this example 58.3 ft). With the three numbers I’ve developed an equation for computing bridge clearance:
Clearance under bridge = 58 ft – Tide Height – Water Level Delta of predicted vs actual
As long as your mast height is less than the clearance from the formula above, you’ll clear the bridge.
Note that the tide height and water level delta can be positive or negative numbers. The equation works either way. The crucial bit of information is the real bridge height of 58 ft at MLLW. The number started out from my experience with a dozen transits and it looks to be a little conservative by 0.3 ft. I haven’t yet confirmed this but you probably have a few more inches if you avoid the red light hanging down from the middle of the bridge. As I said earlier, I’ve used this formula a dozen times with success. In fact one year I was going through and was called over the VHF to STOP! (their emphasis), I was going to hit! This was before height boards were added. I double checked my figures and proceeded onward with no problem. The experience does highlight the difficulty in judging bridge heights as you approach a bridge. You would swear you are going to hit, your angle of view will lead you to believe that – but you won’t if you follow the formula.
Standard Disclaimer: the captain always take full responsibility for his actions, I believe the above advice to be accurate and I’ve followed it myself many times in my sailboat with a 55 ft 3 inch mast, once with the height board reading 56 ft.
Robert Sherer
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