August 13, 2012
Was returning thru the Narrows from the north yesterday at
approx. 5:00 pm the 12th and hit bottom twice on the starboard approach; the
last turn into the harbor. My boat drafts 4' of water. Very scary . . .
thinking of moving my boat to Stevensville.
Glenn Reilly
We transited Kent Narrows Friday 7/20/12 heading south
at low tide. Approaching from the north, the second set of channel markers have
been altered by blanking out the former red and converting the former green
marker to red. A new temporary green is moored to the east of the new red
(former green). At that location the channel is narrowed to approximately 1/2
its normal width. We had a reading of 5.2 feet depth at the point where the
channel is altered. We draw 5 feet, so it was a bit dicey. We returned the
other direction on Sunday, 7/22/12 at high tide and never saw less than 6.8
feet depth.
David Wood
August 10, 2012
Jody,
The tide was not low at the time since I was very surprised
that I had less than 3 feet under my boat and had been through Kent Narrows
several times last year and never saw depths like that. The tide was
closer to being high, but I can’t say with confidence exactly what it was,
except that it was not low tide.
As far as the newly remarked channel goes, I was in the
marked channel with other boats and got these readings approaching the inlet
and then through the inlet into the narrows. I'm not sure about the newly
remarked channel, sorry.
Bill
August 10, 2012
William
Do you remember what the tide was doing at the time? Was
that the newly remarked channel?
Jody, CBM
August 9, 2012
Went through Kent Narrows three weeks ago and there was less
than 5 feet of water in the middle of the northern entrance to the channel.
William J. Griffin
July 29, 2012
We went through Kent Narrows from N to S on 7/20 at 12:30
PM. The second set of markers approaching from the north have been
altered. The former RED is now blanked out with a white cover and the
former GREEN has now been converted to RED. There is a new small
temporary GREEN moored to the East of the old GREEN (now RED) about 1/2 the
normal (already narrow) width of the former channel at that location.
Basically the channel has been moved over to the East at that location.
Our boat draws 5' and as we were passing the repositioned marks the depth
gauge read 5.2', so it was a bit dicey. Coming back the other way on 7/22
at 12:00 noon we saw a measurement of 6' at that location.
Dave Wood
July 24, 2012
We went through the Kent Narrows on Friday the 20th and Sunday the 22nd. The Coast Guard has moved one
of the markers. The moved the channel at the green #3 over by installing
a temporary green marker. We went through at about 2 ½ hours before low tide.
The lowest depth we saw was 7.2’ at one or two spots. Most of the channel
was much deeper.
You may want to contact Mears Marina at Kent Island.
They were very helpful providing info about the markers to our friends in
advance of our passage.
Fred Fortunato
s/v Fortune Teller
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