[C320-list] Heart-Miller Island Cut

[Jerry Taylor]

Hi Scott,

I went through Kent Narrows a couple of weeks ago and had plenty of water on 
the North side.  The tide had been flooding for about an hour and had to put 
the pedal to the medal to get under the bridge!  Piper draws 4'4".  Hope 
this helps.  Knapps Narrows was not fun on a dead low tide, but made it 
without grounding and minimal tide under the bridge.

Jerry
Piper - 1128

-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 9:50 AM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Heart-Miller Island Cut

Bruce, if you get the answer some other way, please let the rest of us
Chesapeake sailors know. I've wondered about that cut for some time and
have never tried it, except on my parent's boat in the 1980's. But
Hart-Miller was much smaller then before they started dumping dredge
spoils there, and my parent's boat only drew 3.5 feet with the board up
and had no instruments to measure the actual depth. My chart suggests it
can't be done today, but perhaps that is wrong.

On a related note, have any Chesapeake sailors taken their boat through
Kent Narrows this year? I've wondered if it is still possible given all
of the shoaling in the north channel recently. Running aground with the
wing keel and a lot of powerboat traffic is no fun.

Scott Thompson
Surprise, #653

On 7/1/2013 6:41 AM, Bruce wrote:
> To any of you sailors familiar with the area...Can a 320 navigate through 
> the cut? We anchored at HMI Saturday night but we went around the North 
> side and came down. With hull #719 and a wing keel I believe our draft is 
> 4'10" I've even though there hundreds of times on other boats but I know 
> how that channel can fill in, I don't want to find out the hard way.
>
> Bruce Hunter
> Nauti Time #719



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