[C320-list] Heart-Miller Island Cut

[Doug Treff]

Warren, 

That is some good local info! I keep September Song on Rock Creek and have wondered the same thing. Several years ago I had a <gasp> powerboat and at the time the water there was a little thin. Love hanging out at HM for a daytime destination. Will keep this in mind!

Doug Treff

Warren Updike <wupdike at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Slipping on nearby Middle River, we know the H-M cut well.  In the past
>there was a lot of shoaling.  A few years ago, the state reinforced the
>perimeter of Pleasure Is. with stone to reduce the problem of storms,
>tides, and currents washing silt into the cut. Since then there has
>been no trouble for a wing keel 320. We use it often.  You should find
>no less than 6 ft. at low tide and for most of its length will be 8 to
>9.  The one low area you'll find is around Red #4. Still, check your
>chart and keep an eye on depth when transiting.  
>Boats with 6 ft. keels should avoid the cut at low tide.
>
>Warren & Pattie Updike
>1994 C320 #62 "Warr De Mar"
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Thompson [mailto:surprise at thompson87.com] 
>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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