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Old 01-18-2016, 10:20 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by hmason View Post
Is it possible to run the AICW without running aground? Yes. It's also possible to win the Powerball. I suggest that those of you that think running aground is not an accident, try the AICW.

The odds of making it up or down the ICW without running aground are not quite that high.

A great many of those that touch bottom are either out of the channel, even though they will swear they were not, or not playing the tides as they should.

So for the most part Eric is right. Running aground is rarely a true accident. Even on the ICW.

But there are of course exceptions. Like how the ICW near Haulover Inlet in Miami had an unmarked hazard right in the channel. But after a certain point it was pretty common knowledge it was there. So I guess you could say hitting after that was no longer as much of an accident.
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