Inter Coastal North of Wrightsville Beach, NC.

[Ron T]

There are three very shallow areas coming south. One just inside of the Wrightsville Bridge. The opening between shore and green can is very tight. All shallow areas not marked. I am 4'7" and had some hard times I do not want to repeat.

 

[Tom.B]

Is it the one with the palm tree, tiki hut, and parking meter perched on it? Yea, that's an easy one to hit sometimes.

 

[bilge53]

Wrightsville North

We transitted this stretch twice in the last 60 days with 4' draft. In center channel we had no issues. The "S" turn north of there was not a problem either; we followed the marks, gave them some room and went right through. Sneads Ferry area had a few skinny spots but nothing shocking. Swansboro was a breeze.

 

[rwidman]

It gets worse as you go south. There are some very shallow spots just north of Charleston, SC. They have begun dredging this area.


BTW: It's the "Intracoastal", not Inter Coastal.

 

[Ski in NC]

I know who put up that parking meter!!!

 

[bilge53]

North of Charleston

A local described the Ben Sawyer/high rise bridge area as the endzones of a football field with bad shoaling between the 40 yard lines that at low tide got as shallow as 2 1/2 feet. When we came through several weeks ago northbound there were two barges of dredge pipes about McCellansville headed south so maybe this is being addressed.