In 2009, I ran hard aground (4-foot draft) going out the NW channel at Cedar Key right between markers "21" and "22". There was a sailboat sitting a couple hundred yard farther out in the channel aimed at us, probably where he'd got stuck. Tide was low. We waited to float free and than went back out the way we had come in the day before - the Main Ship Channel. A smarter cruiser than we anchored off Sea Horse Key in open water and avoided the long trek up the Main Ship Channel to the anchorage right off the town. It was calm that night; so he made a good decision and was away early the next morning while we waited to float free. Having been to Cedar Key by car before, I knew there was no call to go ashore. Rich Gano Calypso (GB42 Hull # 295) Panama City area, FL