Hi Ron - October of 2005, as I recall. My inexperience at fault. The inlet looked okay from a distance, but when we got inside I wandered too far south of the north jetty. A couple of big rollers overtopped the north jetty and hit us on the beam as they broke. Seahorse was thrown sideways so hard that the dink, which was strapped down in 2 places, slid off the stern platform, dangling from one end like a pendulum. A sobering experience. Since, we have learned that there have been lots of mishaps there, many involving local commercial fishing boats. In fact, a scalloper was being salvaged from the bar just north of the Light on the 15th of this month when we went in. We used to approach directly from the sea buoy, but now do as the locals do and round the end of the north jetty, about 30-50 yards off, in order to avoid the outer bar. Barnegat is Dutch for "Inlet of Breakers" and is one of the most dangerous inlets on the East Coast. We'd prefer to miss it, but unfortunately at our speed, it's difficult to reach Absecon in daylight from Atlantic Highlands at this time of year. Regards, John "Seahorse" >A recent misadventure? > > due to my foolishness, when we got into (and fortunately, got out of) breakers in the Barnegat Inlet. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

I run the next inlet down, well actually it's called the north way just off holegate. If you ever need them I can provide the numbers to slide in there. Another 18 miles but way safer. You can run up the icw a bit and anchor by the stinkhouse. I'll need to go to the boat to get them. I draw about 3.5 ft and never see less than 4.5 ft under the boat. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Truelove39@aol.com> To: <rcrogers6@kennett.net> Cc: <passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:21 AM Subject: [PUP] Barnegat Inlet (was - Evolution ) > Hi Ron - > > October of 2005, as I recall. My inexperience at fault. The inlet looked > okay from a distance, but when we got inside I wandered too far south of > the > north jetty. A couple of big rollers overtopped the north jetty and hit > us on > the beam as they broke. Seahorse was thrown sideways so hard that the > dink, > which was strapped down in 2 places, slid off the stern platform, > dangling from > one end like a pendulum. A sobering experience. > > Since, we have learned that there have been lots of mishaps there, many > involving local commercial fishing boats. In fact, a scalloper was being > salvaged > from the bar just north of the Light on the 15th of this month when we > went > in. We used to approach directly from the sea buoy, but now do as the > locals > do and round the end of the north jetty, about 30-50 yards off, in order > to > avoid the outer bar. > > Barnegat is Dutch for "Inlet of Breakers" and is one of the most > dangerous > inlets on the East Coast. We'd prefer to miss it, but unfortunately at > our > speed, it's difficult to reach Absecon in daylight from Atlantic > Highlands at > this time of year. > > Regards, > > John > "Seahorse" > >>A recent misadventure? > >> > due to my foolishness, when we got into (and fortunately, got out of) > breakers in the Barnegat Inlet. > > > > ************************************** See what's new at > http://www.aol.com > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking-under-power > > To unsubscribe send email to > passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World > Productions, formerly known as Trawler World Productions.

Forgot to snip once agin so sorry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Allen" <bill@northeastscubasupply.com> To: "Passagemaking Under Power List" <passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com>; <rcrogers6@kennett.net> Cc: <passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [PUP] Barnegat Inlet (was - Evolution ) ://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking-under-power >> >> To unsubscribe send email to >> passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com with the word >> UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. >> >> Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World >> Productions, formerly known as Trawler World Productions. > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking-under-power > > To unsubscribe send email to > passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World > Productions, formerly known as Trawler World Productions.