Ok call me a wuz.
On Friday we came down the ICW from Manasquan to Tice's Shoal where we anchored out for the night.
Who ever says this stretch is not passable when they need 4 feet is not being accurate. We never saw less than 3 feet until we went out Barnegat inlet on Saturday. As I said we anchored at Tices' cove and it was terrific. No one else around save one other o'nighter. We spun around during the night but the FX-55 reset and hooked up without our knowing it. There are some good photos coming but that will have to wait until we have some performance since dial up is around 230kb.
We were fortunate to follow some other larger boats out Barnegat. Believe me, it's quite the winding path. There are a few extremely shallow spots where most larger boats back off and take it dead slow. The trip down to AC was reported to be 2 feet but in actuality it was more like 3-4 over all. The challenge here was to find the sweet spot and ride it down to AC. About 10.5 knots of boat speed had us frequently surfing well over 12 knots and heeling all over the place. It was a good workout to keep the boat running on course as well as I did. At one point with a large swell moving under us, the port side appeared to cavitate and spin up. Not sure if we snagged something or not but a very brief blast inside the inlet proved nothing to be worried about. We hope it stays that way.
The real treat today was a pod of dolphins passing right in front of us as we pulled into the AC inlet. It made traveling in a full beam sea on the approach to the inlet worthwhile. So here we are in AC, where diesel is 3.58 after we filled up just inside the pt. pleasant canal at 4.01.
We tried to anchor out inside the small bay to the north of Rum Point inside the AC inlet but the holding was poor. So we gave up and went to Kammermon's which has the diesel at 3.58.
On Friday we came down the ICW from Manasquan to Tice's Shoal where we anchored out for the night.
Who ever says this stretch is not passable when they need 4 feet is not being accurate. We never saw less than 3 feet until we went out Barnegat inlet on Saturday. As I said we anchored at Tices' cove and it was terrific. No one else around save one other o'nighter. We spun around during the night but the FX-55 reset and hooked up without our knowing it. There are some good photos coming but that will have to wait until we have some performance since dial up is around 230kb.
We were fortunate to follow some other larger boats out Barnegat. Believe me, it's quite the winding path. There are a few extremely shallow spots where most larger boats back off and take it dead slow. The trip down to AC was reported to be 2 feet but in actuality it was more like 3-4 over all. The challenge here was to find the sweet spot and ride it down to AC. About 10.5 knots of boat speed had us frequently surfing well over 12 knots and heeling all over the place. It was a good workout to keep the boat running on course as well as I did. At one point with a large swell moving under us, the port side appeared to cavitate and spin up. Not sure if we snagged something or not but a very brief blast inside the inlet proved nothing to be worried about. We hope it stays that way.
The real treat today was a pod of dolphins passing right in front of us as we pulled into the AC inlet. It made traveling in a full beam sea on the approach to the inlet worthwhile. So here we are in AC, where diesel is 3.58 after we filled up just inside the pt. pleasant canal at 4.01.
We tried to anchor out inside the small bay to the north of Rum Point inside the AC inlet but the holding was poor. So we gave up and went to Kammermon's which has the diesel at 3.58.
The photo is the sunset from Tice's Shoal on Barnaget Bay.
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Glad to hear you didn't run aground. The sunset looks beautiful. The winds finally died down up here, but gusts up to 125mph took down a lot of trees in the area.
Keep posting to your blog. It is fun to follow your progress.
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