Can anyone tell me if there are any issues for a 5' ft draft sailboat going from Carabelle to Mobile Bay on the GICW? I will be there in about a week and have heard different things regarding hurricane shoaling etc. First hand accounts please. Also, from Tarpon Springs I would like to go to Cedar Keys but it requires a stop in between. Can anyone advise on a good place to go in, again I draw 5'. thanks in advance, Tom BTW I came through Georgia about 3 weeks ago and if you draw anything at all you shouldn't be running around dead low. We had trouble every day. Also, re the Bridge of Lions, my book is back in the boat (I'm at the Moore Haven Library) but I recall it being on a schedule, don't recall what it was. Plenty of room if I remember, when open. ------------------------ Current U.S. War Dead: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html "Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." NOTICE IN REGARD TO ATTACHMENTS: I almost never open attachments. However, if you do send me an attachment please let me know it is coming, if you originated it yourself and what type of file it is. Also, please identify what is in the attachment so I can decide whether or not to open it. Sorry, but there are just too many viruses out there. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091

From Tarpon Springs to Cedar Keys you can go into: Hudson, Hernando Beach, Bayport (once was a major port 1840's - no services now -- just a place to shelter), Homosassa, Crystal River, Inglis (but you might as well go to Cedar Keys if you make it that far). Hudson, Hernando Beach, Bayport: only go in on the high tide, use the old WWI bird rack markers 5 miles out as your first marker in, if you don't have 9 feet to start, don't go in and don't go in at dark under any circumstances, winding channel, flats are dry on winter tides. Personally, I wouldn't go into Crystal River or Inglis at night either. MM On Mar 12, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Tom Felice wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there are any issues for a 5' ft > draft sailboat going from Carabelle to Mobile Bay on > the GICW? I will be there in about a week and have > heard different things regarding hurricane shoaling > etc. First hand accounts please. > > Also, from Tarpon Springs I would like to go to Cedar > Keys but it requires a stop in between. Can anyone > advise on a good place to go in, again I draw 5'. > > thanks in advance, > > Tom > > BTW I came through Georgia about 3 weeks ago and if > you draw anything at all you shouldn't be running > around dead low. We had trouble every day. Also, re > the Bridge of Lions, my book is back in the boat (I'm > at the Moore Haven Library) but I recall it being on a > schedule, don't recall what it was. Plenty of room if > I remember, when open. > > ------------------------ > > > Current U.S. War Dead: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/ > USfatalities.html > > > "Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor > people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." > > > NOTICE IN REGARD TO ATTACHMENTS: I almost never open attachments. > However, if you do send me an attachment please let me know it is > coming, if you originated it yourself and what type of file it is. > Also, please identify what is in the attachment so I can decide > whether or not to open it. Sorry, but there are just too many > viruses out there. > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ > Need Mail bonding? > Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. > http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/great-loop > > To modify your Great-Loop subscription options (change email address, > unsubscribe, etc.) go to: http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/options/ > great-loop

About this time (May) a year ago, we ran from Mobile to Port St Joe, mostly in the ICW. We draw 3 feet of water. We never encountered any shallow places. We did find shallow water in the channel coming in Government Cut from offshore, it stayed shallow all way across the Bay, into Apalachicola River. By shallow, it was around 6-7 feet. _____________________________________________________________________________ _______ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 _______________________________________________ http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/great-loop To modify your Great-Loop subscription options (change email address, unsubscribe, etc.) go to: http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/options/great-loop -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.413 / Virus Database: 268.18.9/719 - Release Date: 3/12/2007 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.413 / Virus Database: 268.18.9/719 - Release Date: 3/12/2007

You need to have good weather, but when we went from Carabelle to Tarpon Springs, we just anchored about 10 miles out in the Gulf in 14 feet of water. We headed toward Steinhatchee, then about 30 miles out we headed south toward Tarpon with the intent of doing an all nighter. We found so many traps that we decided to just anchor out. Had a breeze come up for a couple of hours around midnight, but otherwise it was a normal anchorage, except for being 10 miles out in the Gulf. Vance & Audine Nelson Superior Dreams GB 32-340 anchored in Boca Raton Houghton, MI 49931 KC8RGO > Also, from Tarpon Springs I would like to go to Cedar > Keys but it requires a stop in between. Can anyone > advise on a good place to go in, again I draw 5'. > > thanks in advance, > > Tom

Agree that is the safe bet (in good weather). They don't call this area (Hudson-Hernando Beach-Bayport) "the Devil's rock garden" for nothing. On Mar 12, 2007, at 7:37 PM, Vance Nelson wrote: > You need to have good weather, but when we went from Carabelle to > Tarpon > Springs, we just anchored about 10 miles out in the Gulf in 14 feet of > water. We headed toward Steinhatchee, then about 30 miles out we > headed > south toward Tarpon with the intent of doing an all nighter. We > found so > many traps that we decided to just anchor out. Had a breeze come > up for a > couple of hours around midnight, but otherwise it was a normal > anchorage, > except for being 10 miles out in the Gulf. > > Vance & Audine Nelson > Superior Dreams GB 32-340 anchored in Boca Raton > Houghton, MI 49931 > KC8RGO > >> Also, from Tarpon Springs I would like to go to Cedar >> Keys but it requires a stop in between. Can anyone >> advise on a good place to go in, again I draw 5'. >> >> thanks in advance, >> >> Tom