In a message dated 3/14/04 5:36:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, jurban@netsecuritypro.com writes: > Today, March 14, 2004 we transited Lockwood's Folly on the ICW at 10:30 am. > I estimate tide at that time was 1.76 feet above MLW. At the shallowest > point we saw 5 3/4 to 6 feet which verifies 4 feet at MLW. A sailboat in > front of us drawing 5 1/2 feet briefly ran aground, but was able to get off > and then follow us thru. I just returned from running the ICW northbound between Charleston and the Neuse River aboard "Katahdin", a 42' Seaton design drawing approximately 5-1/2', owned by lister Lee Robinson. We passed thru Lockwood's Folly a bit before high water last Monday and never saw less than 4' under the keel, which would equate to about 5-1/2 to 6' at low water. Local folks and USCG confirmed similar depths and commercial tows are passing unimpeded. The shallowest water that we saw in the ICW was about 8-10 miles south of Bogue Inlet where we briefly touched on one or two occasions while in the center of the channel. This was also the shallowest section when I came south in December, 2003 and at that time I witnessed a southbound tug/barge drawing 8' aground and blocking the channel--the tow ultimately turned around and ran back to Moorehead to run offshore for Cape Fear. Best--Michael Oritt Durbeck 48--NAMASTE