[C320-list] Heart-Miller Island Cut

[Bruce]

2 320's in Rock Creek , mines at White Rocks, where is yours?

Bruce 
Nauti Time #719

Doug Treff <doug at treff.us> wrote:

>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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