This was 2006. Part of the problem was that channel is so narrow that I remember the GPS position on the laptop showing me smack in the center of the channel yet I was hard in the mud. Either charts are wrong or GPS had 50-100 feet accuracy issue. I guess the waterway guide or active captain would help by saying hug the red/green side around marker xxx right? That was when NOAA first released the electronic charts for download. I remember downloading the raster version few months before the incident.
Petar From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Coleman Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List Coinjock RE: Andrew running the ditch south Better yet, Join Active Captain, and get the app that talks to you as you navigate and tells you what to watch out for! Bill Coleman C&C 39 From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of henry evans Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List Coinjock RE: Andrew running the ditch south Peter, One other thought. Pick up the 2014 Waterway Guide for the ICW. I and others updated that last spring. Since then, there have been over 500 updates and those can be found on the Waterway Guide web site. If you follow the guide and read the updates on the web site, you will have the most current, up to date information available. When I send in an update say on shoaling in a cut in Georgia, it is posted on the site within 6 hours. You can't get any more current information. Web site is free. Waterway Guide is $39. Cheap insurance to save a night like you had. Cheers, Hank On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 9:34 AM, Petar Horvatic <[email protected]> wrote: I got stuck in the mud one night just passed coinjock pretty bad, no tides there. It was that first left bend. When you make that first left after the stretch of straight waterway at coinjock. Trying to get myself out of the mud not knowing if I’m in the channel or not was not fun. Took anchor deployments, tilting the boat by rising the dinghy on the boom along the side, etc…. I was muddy tired and miserable, about the say f** it and just go to bed like that, but then I saw a huge tug come right by me too close for comfort. They all appear bigger and closer all lit up in pitch black. He obviously just went about his business probably laughing hi a88 off. By the wee hours of the morning I was once again floating, and decided to go back to a slip in coinjock and sleep for a while. The next morning I was freaking out a little bit even in daylight going by the scene of the “death trap”. >From that day on, never in the dark in the ICW. My old log from those days is here. http://sundowner-cruise.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html Petar Horvatic Sundowner 76 C&C 38MkII Newport, RI
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