St Augistine is my least favorite inlet. I have been in and out half a dozen times. Your depth sounder may not work because of the turbulence, giving you false readings all over the map. When you are bouncing around on the swells the ATONs do not appear to have any clear pattern and can be confusing. The inlet channel shifts and changes. Fall, Winter and Spring are the times of greatest change. In Winter and Spring it hooks toward the South, in Summer, North. What was good last month may not be so after a strong blow or a Hurricane passes off shore. I lived there for ten years - my "local knowledge" would be: avoid it in a blow and when the current is running fast, there are better inlets to the north and south, In calm weather follow a loaded shrimper and don't cut any corners.
Could be I am overly cautious, (I came close to winding up in the surf once - not in St A), but it's a place where you can get into trouble fast. Philip On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 21:59 -0400, Flying Pig wrote: > We're going to be arriving in St. Augustine late next week (10th-ish). > > What's the controlling depth on the inlet? > > Thanks. > > L8R -- Philip Lange AE4OV USSV ORYOKI Edenton, NC There is no sense in having a plan if you're not going to pretend to follow it. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
