Planning trip from Wilmington to Fort Lauderdale
Starting to plan a cruise from Wilmington NC to Ft. Lauderdale toward the
end of January. I'm operating a steel 54' trawler with a SEVEN foot draft.
A straight shot in the ocean would not be any fun for the two of us so I
plan a combination of ocean and ICW. My current navigational resources
include: 1) NOAH charts 2) waterway guides 3) Skipper Bob anchorages 4)Jim
Healy's suggestions 5) Furuno black box 3D chartploter. Planing to travel
during daylight mostly and would like a combination of anchorages and city
docks. Guessing that I could make 70 miles a day. I figure about 500
miles.I plan on 9 days with some delays. Any suggestions as to logistics or
trouble spots appreciated.
Edmond Badham
COSMO
Cape Fear, NC
I have a 52' steel trawler with a 6' draft. I threw away my Skipper Bob,
and I suggest you do the same. You can't use many (most?) of his
anchorages, and, by the same token, you can anchor so many places
Skipper Bob would not dare, that it's really a mismatch.
Get yourself a plotter app with integrated Active Captain. If you don't
have anything already, a good starting point is Aquamap on an
inexpensive tablet. Make sure the tablet has GPS.
We seldom take the ICW through SC or GA. Too shallow in many places and
requires a lot of fiddly management of departure and arrival times to
get through it. We prefer to run offshore overnight and skip all the
squeaky stuff, leaving from Morehead City and coming back in at JAX or
beyond. But if you prefer day-only runs, here's what we would do:
Beaufort/Morehead to Masonboro Inlet / Wrightsville Beach anchorage.
Inside from Wrightsville to Southport/Bald Head
Bald Head to Charleston Harbor. Intermediate stop in Winyah Bay if you
don't have the speed/range.
Charleston to St. Simons Sound (Jekyll Island/Brunswick)
St. Simons to St. Johns River (Jacksonville)
We have map links to our anchorages in each of those places.
-Sean
m/y Vector
Lying Clearwater, FL
http://OurOdyssey.BlogSpot.com
On 1/3/20 4:38 PM, edmond badham via Trawlers-and-Trawlering wrote:
Starting to plan a cruise from Wilmington NC to Ft. Lauderdale toward the
end of January. I'm operating a steel 54' trawler with a SEVEN foot draft.
A straight shot in the ocean would not be any fun for the two of us so I
plan a combination of ocean and ICW. My current navigational resources
include: 1) NOAH charts 2) waterway guides 3) Skipper Bob anchorages 4)Jim
Healy's suggestions 5) Furuno black box 3D chartploter. Planing to travel
during daylight mostly and would like a combination of anchorages and city
docks. Guessing that I could make 70 miles a day. I figure about 500
miles.I plan on 9 days with some delays. Any suggestions as to logistics or
trouble spots appreciated.
Edmond Badham
COSMO
Cape Fear, NC
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I'd offer this suggestion: If large tugs, usually 9-10 foot drafts, or
large, loaded barges, usually 9-10 foot drafts can do it, so can you. You
might have to pay attention to tides. There are many places to anchor,
chose them from proposed depths and protection suggested by your charts.
Don't be limited by only those that are in a guide. Be cautious of listed
anchorages without controlling depths listed. Do follow suggestions for
inlets noted in the guides, being cautious of those listed for use with
local knowledge.
Some of our most pleasant passages are those we had going off-shore; then
too, some of our most challenging have been going off-shore. Winter weather
down south makes off-shore work much more dependant on being willing to
wait for a weather window as they are shorter and less frequent than summer
off-shore work. Isn't yachting great?
Rudy & Jill Sechez
*BRINEY BUG-a 34' Sail-Assisted Trawler *
Anchoring Consultants @ trawlertrainingabc.com
http://trawlertrainingabc.com
850-832-7748
Cocoa Fl
If you're even thinking about going outside, suggest you get the current
(digital) Coastal Pilot volumes for the areas you'll possibly be
transiting. They'll be helpful in determining which inlets are usable
and what to look for. Basically, I wouldn't trust any inlet that's not a
Class A inlet; the others are subject to shoaling and generally require
local knowledge to be safe.
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On 1/3/2020 04:38 PM, edmond badham via Trawlers-and-Trawlering wrote:
Starting to plan a cruise from Wilmington NC to Ft. Lauderdale toward the
end of January. I'm operating a steel 54' trawler with a SEVEN foot draft.
A straight shot in the ocean would not be any fun for the two of us so I
plan a combination of ocean and ICW. My current navigational resources
include: 1) NOAH charts 2) waterway guides 3) Skipper Bob anchorages 4)Jim
Healy's suggestions 5) Furuno black box 3D chartploter. Planing to travel
during daylight mostly and would like a combination of anchorages and city
docks. Guessing that I could make 70 miles a day. I figure about 500
miles.I plan on 9 days with some delays. Any suggestions as to logistics or
trouble spots appreciated.