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Well, the guys finished work on this dredging project last week. I was so excited to use the new channel! Well, I went through it about a dozen times this past weekend and it's truly a disappointment. Things are perhaps worse now than they were before. The work done reportedly made a channel 30 feet wide and 5 feet deep all the way from the boat ramp to Cold Pass. Certain parts of this new channel are just as advertised. I'm going to be spending a lot of time trying to make sense of all this and map it out, but right when you think you're in the channel, according to the PVC markers, you end up high centered just as you are adjacent or a little past the boat docks on the right. It was really bad. I could find no discernable channel at all at that point, despite trying again and again. Finally, in desperation I took to using the old channel, but you still have to go over a hump to get into the good part of the new channel that leads out to the pass. That was the only spot that was a real problem before. It's all still a big problem.
Either there is a hard to find jog in the channel, or the PVC markers are WAY off.
Perhaps there is a reason for doing things the way they did, but it would seem to me that it would have made a LOT more sense, and it would have cost a LOT less money, and taken a LOT less time if they had simply widened the natural channel in there, instead of cutting a completely new one and marking it haphazardly. I was in a 16 foot Shoalwater and I had to get out and push numerous times. I talked to the guys in the office and watched others have great difficulty, and finally do as I had done and simply used the old channel that is now much shallower than it was before the work was done.
I'll give it a try again after Easter and report again. It's possible that the PVC markers are not really markers at all. It's possible that I am just an idiot and can't run a boat, but I've been doing this without incident for 32 years. Since I was 7 years old, I've only had to exit a boat 4 times to push off. This past weekend I more than doubled that and I was going dead slow. It's was really treacherous dealing with this and the wind on Sunday.
If anyone has any better information, please share it with us. I'm completely at a loss right now.
Either there is a hard to find jog in the channel, or the PVC markers are WAY off.
Perhaps there is a reason for doing things the way they did, but it would seem to me that it would have made a LOT more sense, and it would have cost a LOT less money, and taken a LOT less time if they had simply widened the natural channel in there, instead of cutting a completely new one and marking it haphazardly. I was in a 16 foot Shoalwater and I had to get out and push numerous times. I talked to the guys in the office and watched others have great difficulty, and finally do as I had done and simply used the old channel that is now much shallower than it was before the work was done.
I'll give it a try again after Easter and report again. It's possible that the PVC markers are not really markers at all. It's possible that I am just an idiot and can't run a boat, but I've been doing this without incident for 32 years. Since I was 7 years old, I've only had to exit a boat 4 times to push off. This past weekend I more than doubled that and I was going dead slow. It's was really treacherous dealing with this and the wind on Sunday.
If anyone has any better information, please share it with us. I'm completely at a loss right now.
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