[C320-list] Heart-Miller Island Cut

[Warren Updike]

Last year??  I'm not aware that there was a temp buoy there.  Yes, the cut does get thin outside the channel.  It's my belief that a 5 ft. keel shouldn't have a problem staying in the channel.  
I tend to favor the red going through.  
In a strong wind, check your track by sighting a line between buoys. It's easy to be blown to the side and still think you are in the channel.

Warren & Pattie Updike
1994 C320 #62 "Warr De Mar"


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Thompson [mailto:surprise at thompson87.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 9:26 PM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Heart-Miller Island Cut

So you had plenty of water in the main channel? When I went through last year you had to take a detour outside the fixed markers on the north side to go around a temporary buoy and although I didn't bump I thought I couldn't have more than 6 inches under the keel. Reports were that in the main channel there was less than 4 ft at that point. Have they dredged recently?


On 7/2/2013 1:20 PM, Jerry Taylor wrote:
> 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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