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Really appreciate everyone's responses. Doing the survey today. Will keep y'all posted.
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Really appreciate everyone's responses. Doing the survey today. Will keep y'all posted.
Good luck!

If you buy it are you gonna give away your V-20? Seems to be a some precedent for that. ;-)
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Hope you get it...it is also a dream of mine to own a trawler and travel by water.

I don't have any experience with the ICW down that way, but I know each spring and fall the ICW in Brunswick County NC is packed with big boats going north or south with no problem...I don't see how Georgia's ICW could be worse than here as far as being narrow and shallow.
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GarageNC is doing the same thing, he's got trawler now. Said he took Trawler School, you might want to contact him. I can put you in touch with some people that frequent those waters, I can get you in touch with a captain for hire if needed
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One of the best pieces of advise I've ever herd about running the ditch is plan your trips in 6 hour intervals, leave the dock at dead low, run the incoming, if you run aground, wait it out and you should float off. Try to plan your arrival at dead high tide so its easier to dock. Never go thru an area you're not familiar with on a falling tide. There's no shame in tieing off on the T head and waiting for the tide and wind to cooperate
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One of the best pieces of advise I've ever herd about running the ditch is plan your trips in 6 hour intervals, leave the dock at dead low, run the incoming, if you run aground, wait it out and you should float off. Try to plan your arrival at dead high tide so its easier to dock. Never go thru an area you're not familiar with on a falling tide. There's no shame in tieing off on the T head and waiting for the tide and wind to cooperate
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Again all good advice. Spare I pmed GarageNC a while back while we were shopping and actually saw a post of his on a facebook page for trawlers that my wife is on, I'll try contacting him again. Survey came back as expected and a few minor items being corrected before the closing and documentation paperwork. I'd like for it to all go through this week to give me time to make the trip before the new moon. Really thinking I'm gonna run her myself with the wifey. Watching the depth, tides, weather and surroundings, stopping when we feel like we should. Like most things in life I feel like after having run her some and gotten a feel for the handling things will be a lot less daunting. Still open to any advice, words of caution, etc.
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