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04-25-2021, 07:39 PM
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Guru
City: Bethlehem, PA
Vessel Name: Lady Kay V
Vessel Model: 1978 Hatteras 53MY
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 1,098
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Chesapeake/Kent Narrows ALERT.
Got the following email from my marina on Kent Island
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04-25-2021, 08:15 PM
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Guru
City: Centreville MD
Vessel Name: Resilient
Vessel Model: Helmsman Trawlers 38E
Join Date: Dec 2020
Posts: 1,509
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WOW
60 ton vessel turned sideways.
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04-25-2021, 09:31 PM
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Guru
City: Bethlehem, PA
Vessel Name: Lady Kay V
Vessel Model: 1978 Hatteras 53MY
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 1,098
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FWT
WOW
60 ton vessel turned sideways.
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Yeah, that got my attention too. Haven't been there since, but if it is the vessel I think it's also STEEL.
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04-29-2021, 01:16 PM
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Guru
City: Bethlehem, PA
Vessel Name: Lady Kay V
Vessel Model: 1978 Hatteras 53MY
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 1,098
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As of today there is no resolution to this issue.
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04-29-2021, 02:55 PM
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Senior Member
City: Chesapeake Bay
Vessel Name: Patty Ann
Vessel Model: Mainship 34 MK1 1980
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 409
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Thanks for the info. I passed it on to friends that are visiting Kent Narrows this weekend.
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04-29-2021, 07:01 PM
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Senior Member
City: Rock Hall Md
Join Date: Nov 2019
Posts: 167
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Would be helpful to know the vessels draft and tide at the time.
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05-01-2021, 01:50 PM
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Guru
City: Bethesda, MD
Vessel Name: Solstice
Vessel Model: Grand Banks 47 Eastbay FB
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 2,164
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Has no one in the area done something simple like offer a case/keg of beer bounty for the first person that finds the mystery obstacle? Seems like it'd be an obvious way to put a quick end to this, offer a reward for finding it.
Seems like a few passes in a grid pattern using a dinghy and dragging a big 'fishing magnet' would turn up something pretty quickly. Then if it doesn't raise with the magnet use a claw anchor to drag it up.
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2005 Eastbay 47 FB - Solstice, w/Highfield CL360 tender
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05-02-2021, 09:02 AM
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Guru
City: Vermont
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 10,076
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wkearney99
Has no one in the area done something simple like offer a case/keg of beer bounty for the first person that finds the mystery obstacle? Seems like it'd be an obvious way to put a quick end to this, offer a reward for finding it.
Seems like a few passes in a grid pattern using a dinghy and dragging a big 'fishing magnet' would turn up something pretty quickly. Then if it doesn't raise with the magnet use a claw anchor to drag it up.
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Agreed. If nothing else it would be fun to see what it is. Might make for a good story, like the car that was mid channel entering Rimouski in Canada. Now how did THAT get there? Is the water too murky to dive? Obviously the thing isn't very deep.
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05-02-2021, 09:12 AM
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Guru
City: Bethesda, MD
Vessel Name: Solstice
Vessel Model: Grand Banks 47 Eastbay FB
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 2,164
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Quote:
Originally Posted by twistedtree
Agreed. If nothing else it would be fun to see what it is. Might make for a good story, like the car that was mid channel entering Rimouski in Canada. Now how did THAT get there? Is the water too murky to dive? Obviously the thing isn't very deep.
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I love a good story. Though if mine was the boat that had both props wrecked I'd be less than entertained.
I remember taking the ferry from Hatteras to Ocracoke when I was a kid and wondering how the heck some rusted-out old early 50's era car got out on one of the islands along the way. We lived near a water reservoir and one winter they drained it for maintenance and discovered a VW Beetle in the muck.
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2005 Eastbay 47 FB - Solstice, w/Highfield CL360 tender
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05-02-2021, 09:12 AM
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Guru
City: Ft Pierce
Vessel Name: Sold
Vessel Model: Was an Albin/PSN 40
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 28,119
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Could have sworn there was an alert for that area back around 2014 or so. The only time I did the narrows snowbirding and there was something other than shoaling on the north approach.
Wonder if someone relocated it.... hard to imagine it took this long though with all the traffic there.
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05-02-2021, 09:16 AM
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Guru
City: Ft Pierce
Vessel Name: Sold
Vessel Model: Was an Albin/PSN 40
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 28,119
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Quote:
Originally Posted by twistedtree
Agreed. If nothing else it would be fun to see what it is. Might make for a good story, like the car that was mid channel entering Rimouski in Canada. Now how did THAT get there? Is the water too murky to dive? Obviously the thing isn't very deep.
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Ran a couple divers out to a current meter inspection a few years back not too far from there... they said working on the bottom was miserable for light and vis. This is in shallower water though and the stretch I would bet gets dredged occasionally.
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05-02-2021, 10:18 AM
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Veteran Member
City: Edgewater, MD
Vessel Name: Barbara Ann
Vessel Model: Ranger Tug R31-S
Join Date: Sep 2019
Posts: 40
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The first thing that comes to mind is a container that fell off a ship in the Bay, with just enough buoyancy to keep it near the surface. Too bad the boat that hit it wasn't able to attach something to it to locate it later.
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05-02-2021, 12:04 PM
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Guru
City: Ft Pierce
Vessel Name: Sold
Vessel Model: Was an Albin/PSN 40
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 28,119
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Ed
The first thing that comes to mind is a container that fell off a ship in the Bay, with just enough buoyancy to keep it near the surface. Too bad the boat that hit it wasn't able to attach something to it to locate it later.
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Water depths may make that theory hard to accept.
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05-02-2021, 01:02 PM
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Guru
City: Cape May, NJ
Vessel Name: Irish Lady
Vessel Model: Monk 36
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 4,947
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Most bass fishing boats now have a version of side scan sonar. My 8 year old Hummingbird SI on my CC would find anything bigger than a crab trap in the first pass. Todays gear is much better and more boats with it.
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Irish Lady
1984 Monk 36 Hull #46
Currently in Cape May, NJ
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05-10-2021, 01:49 PM
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Senior Member
City: East Coast & Caribbean
Vessel Name: Untethered
Vessel Model: Selene 57
Join Date: Feb 2020
Posts: 115
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Submarine?
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05-10-2021, 02:02 PM
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Guru
City: Upstate,SC
Vessel Name: Shipoopi
Vessel Model: derilic sailboat
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 2,884
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Drug sub?
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What a pain in the transom.
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05-10-2021, 06:43 PM
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Senior Member
City: St. Clair Shores, MI
Vessel Name: Solvogn
Vessel Model: Grand Banks 32
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 132
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And they did not write down the GPS coordinates? Maybe they were too shaken up.
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05-10-2021, 07:43 PM
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#18
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Guru
City: Ft Pierce
Vessel Name: Sold
Vessel Model: Was an Albin/PSN 40
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 28,119
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I wouldn't have either in a tiny channel and near some marks. By the time I drifted away from the damage spot the visual reference should be good enough.
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05-11-2021, 06:30 AM
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Guru
City: Edgewater, MD
Vessel Name: Catalina Jack
Vessel Model: Defever 44
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 3,585
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We are berthed in a Kent Narrows marina. Going north through this channel avoids the 3-hour alternative around Kent Island when going north on the Chesapeake. I will take the alternative route until such time as the Corp of Engineers resolve the problem. Our marina is keeping tabs on the issue.
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05-11-2021, 07:14 PM
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Guru
City: Edgewater, MD
Vessel Name: Catalina Jack
Vessel Model: Defever 44
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 3,585
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The Corps of Engineers just completed a survey of the North channel out of Kent Narrows. No submerged objects were found but a shoal was discoverissued. Temporary aides to navigation will be placed to mark the shoal. A notice to mariners has been issed.
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