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Get a tablet and purchase the Aqua Map App. It's downloads Active Captain info which is live updates from participants as they go along the ICW. That info has saved me may times. Read this guys blog:
http://fleetwing.blogspot.com/ Bob cruises up and down the ICW every year in a deep draft sailboat and documents the entire trip. Look at the April posts when he came through Georgia. He also publishes a book every year on Amazon and makes updates on Active Captain. I have made the ICW trip about a dozen times from Annapolis to Florida and beyond, usually piloting a 65' Flemming with a five foot draft. I prefer to run outside and bypass Georgia but have made the inside run as well. Aqua Maps also has tides and current data. You just have to time everything right and stay alert. Allow extra time so you are not pushing it. Some very cool places along the way.
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1984 V20 "Express" & 2003 Suzuki DF140 Former "Skunkboat" 2001 34' Gemini 105MC cruising catamaran sailboat "Island Thyme" OBX, NC 
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08-22-2018, 05:29 AM
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Really appreciate everyone's responses. Doing the survey today. Will keep y'all posted.
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08-22-2018, 06:41 AM
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If you buy it are you gonna give away your V-20? Seems to be a some precedent for that. ;-)
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08-22-2018, 07:32 AM
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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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08-23-2018, 09:50 PM
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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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08-24-2018, 06:38 AM
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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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08-24-2018, 05:55 PM
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1987 V20 w/1987 150HP Yamaha on a Shoreland'r Trailer 1978 16.5 Airslot w/1996 120HP Force on a Four Winns trailer 1996 V21 w/1993 200HP Mercury on a Shoreline Trailer All towed by a 5.7L Hemi Durango. If God didn't have a purpose for us we wouldn't be here, so Live simply, Love generously, Care deeply, Speak kindly. (Leave the rest to God)  Silence, in the face of evil, is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless.
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