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05-17-2022, 09:14 PM
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Guru
City: Bayview
Vessel Name: Puffin
Vessel Model: Willard Vega 30
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 1,340
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Low Tide
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What kind of boat is that?
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05-18-2022, 04:07 PM
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Guru
City: Victoria TX
Vessel Name: Bijou
Vessel Model: 2008 Island Packet PY/SP
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 5,148
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Low Tide
Hope it’s soft mud under there!
Nice boat.
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05-18-2022, 07:18 PM
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Guru
City: Columbia City, OR & Mulege, BCS
Vessel Name: Imagine
Vessel Model: Farrell 34
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 672
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That's really low water! Any word on traffic past Goat Island, that has become a concern.
I'm still on the hard in the yard, labor & weather constraints delaying splash date another week.
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05-18-2022, 08:37 PM
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Guru
City: Bayview
Vessel Name: Puffin
Vessel Model: Willard Vega 30
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 1,340
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GoneFarrell
That's really low water! Any word on traffic past Goat Island, that has become a concern.
I'm still on the hard in the yard, labor & weather constraints delaying splash date another week.
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Going to be a -4 middle of June!
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05-18-2022, 08:46 PM
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Guru
City: West coast
Join Date: Aug 2021
Posts: 788
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It’s been very low tides last few days here in Sidney BC.
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05-18-2022, 09:39 PM
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Guru
City: Southport, FL near Panama City
Vessel Name: FROLIC
Vessel Model: Mainship 30 Pilot II since 2015. GB-42 1986-2015. Former Unlimited Tonnage Master
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Time to "test the engine" in the slip tied up in both directions for a about an hour. Water in my home slip was chest deep I high tide until I spent a few hours with both props ahead 1200 RPM facing in and then out. It was a good "test" resulting in ten feet depth at high tide.
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FROLIC (2005 MainShip 30 Pilot II)
Panama City area
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05-18-2022, 10:32 PM
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Senior Member
City: Lafayette, CA
Vessel Name: Esprit
Vessel Model: 40' Tollycraft tricabin diesel
Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 343
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We were exiting the south end of the Swinomish channel a few years ago on a tide that low. Suddenly we had just a couple feet under the keel. At first I though my son had wandered out of the channel but both range markers and GPS showed us dead center. We only draw 3' so total depth was only 5. Guess it hadn't been dredged.
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05-19-2022, 12:18 AM
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Senior Member
City: Richmond, BC
Vessel Name: Spinner
Vessel Model: 2003 Nordic Tug 42
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 499
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I would be wary of running engines in mud because the mud could clog up the cooling system….
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Sue
42 Nordic Tug Spinner
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05-19-2022, 06:44 AM
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Guru
City: Rochester, NY
Vessel Name: Hour Glass
Vessel Model: Chris Craft Catalina 381
Join Date: Aug 2019
Posts: 5,226
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Spinner
I would be wary of running engines in mud because the mud could clog up the cooling system….
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Agreed. I'd only try to blow a slip out if there's enough current to prevent the stirred up mud from getting pulled back into the cooling intakes.
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05-19-2022, 09:23 AM
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TF Site Team
City: Saltspring Island
Vessel Name: Retreat
Vessel Model: C&L 44
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 5,084
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Spinner
I would be wary of running engines in mud because the mud could clog up the cooling system….
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Fisheries frown on that practice, as the mud is habitat that you are removing without a permit.
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05-19-2022, 09:45 AM
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Senior Member
City: La Conner, WA
Vessel Name: Carousel
Vessel Model: Bayliner 4788 (1998)
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 222
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With the negative tides this summer things should get real busy for TowboatU.S.
Here is the latest official word:
WASHINGTON – STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA TO STRAIT OF GEORGIA – SWINOMISH CHANNEL SOUTH ENTRANCE – Shoaling (Revised from LNM 14/22) Significant shoaling exists in Swinomish Channel, especially the South Entrance between South Entrance Buoy 5 (LLNR 18802) and South Entrance Daybeacon 12 (LLNR 18812). The project depth of Swinomish Channel is 12 feet, however, the controlling depth of Swinomish Channel is 4.1 feet based upon the latest available hydrographic data. This controlling depth of 4.1 feet is reflected on NOAA ENC products. Raster products do not reflect this sounding information, as they are no longer being updated with most routine corrections. Mariners should consult ENC cells for the most up-to-date information. Mariners should transit the Swinomish Channel waterway with caution, especially at low tidal conditions.
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05-19-2022, 10:30 AM
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Guru
City: Olympia
Vessel Name: Rendezvous
Vessel Model: Blue water 40
Join Date: Aug 2021
Posts: 522
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NWSeadog
With the negative tides this summer things should get real busy for TowboatU.S.
Here is the latest official word:
WASHINGTON – STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA TO STRAIT OF GEORGIA – SWINOMISH CHANNEL SOUTH ENTRANCE – Shoaling (Revised from LNM 14/22) Significant shoaling exists in Swinomish Channel, especially the South Entrance between South Entrance Buoy 5 (LLNR 18802) and South Entrance Daybeacon 12 (LLNR 18812). The project depth of Swinomish Channel is 12 feet, however, the controlling depth of Swinomish Channel is 4.1 feet based upon the latest available hydrographic data. This controlling depth of 4.1 feet is reflected on NOAA ENC products. Raster products do not reflect this sounding information, as they are no longer being updated with most routine corrections. Mariners should consult ENC cells for the most up-to-date information. Mariners should transit the Swinomish Channel waterway with caution, especially at low tidal conditions.
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good post. that is a significant amount of shoaling to be sure. when they say controlling depth, they are indicating mean low water, right? in certain tides it would be almost drying.
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05-19-2022, 10:34 AM
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Member
City: Seattle
Join Date: Nov 2021
Posts: 13
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Aqua Map has the Corps of Engineers (ACE) survey data available as a chart overlay, and it is very interesting -- not only for the narrow channel at South end but also a couple of substantial bars into the middle of the channel farther north. My takeaway is to look for tide that is at least (your draft) - 2.5 feet, and watch sonar (of course).
BTW the last time I went by there, we saw a beautiful 60 foot sailboat approaching the south entrance. The admiral commented on how they might have gone all over the world. I said I thought they were cutting the corner between the first 2 green buoys.
30 minutes later we heard a call on channel 16 that they were grounded. (And 2 hours later a call that they were underway again.)
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05-23-2022, 12:53 PM
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Senior Member
City: Hernando Beach
Vessel Model: Looking
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 447
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Quote:
Originally Posted by koliver
Fisheries frown on that practice, as the mud is habitat that you are removing without a permit.
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Hi Mr. Oliver:
Things must be a little different here on the Gulf of Mexico, state of Florida, compared to up there in the Pacific NW. I've used boat motors for forty years to blow the sand out of my own private slip AND my family's former marina slips. Yes, dredging requires a permit, but not regular maintenance.
Mr. Gano's boat dock is located in a small bay off the Gulf. The prime fisheries areas start about 50 miles offshore.
Mr. Gano is also one of the most conscientious boaters on TF, and would never endanger fisheries, wetlands, manatees, birds or anything else in the environment with any of his his boat-related activities.
Additionally, when I finish moving the sand out of my slip, I just run the boat out into the Gulf for an hour and that cleans out anything my intake strainers encountered. I've used both inboards and outboards, and never had any problems with my motors (or my neighbors, or Fish & Wildlife).
Cheers,
Mrs. Trombley
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05-23-2022, 02:06 PM
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Guru
City: Jacksonville Beach, FL
Vessel Model: Back in the market looking
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 890
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rgano
Time to "test the engine" in the slip tied up in both directions for a about an hour. Water in my home slip was chest deep I high tide until I spent a few hours with both props ahead 1200 RPM facing in and then out. It was a good "test" resulting in ten feet depth at high tide.
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Prolonged "prop dredging" can have unintended consequences, for the raw water impellers and other plumbing, as well as for the surrounding bottom contour. As far as I know, it has been illegal in Florida for decades, though plenty of boaters have gotten away with it.
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