If you were to travel offshore from Charleston,SC to Southport,NC how far off the shoreline do you venture ,5,10 miles or further ?
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If you were to travel offshore from Charleston,SC to Southport,NC how far off the shoreline do you venture ,5,10 miles or further ?
Personally I would stay about ten miles offshore. There are rocks and shoaling north of Charleston. it's not a big deal but hugging the coastline is not advised. FYI do not make your turn to the north too soon Charleston Harbor entrance has rock jetty's both sides that are completly submerged at high tide.
The Navionics app on your smart phone is your friend when it comes to questions like this. You enter your boat's parameters, and it will plot a course based on those parameters. I fudge my draft by three feet as a safety factor, and it's never gotten me into trouble. Great for trip planning, especially coastal.
Thanks! I see the route .
It's hard to get much detail from that pic, but running offshore is always a, "closest distance between two points is a straight line" sort of deal with obvious variations for immovable objects and the bottom. You can see where I did a measurement from the course line to shore to come up with that 23 mile figure. It's just a point and click to do that, and all I did was enter Charleston City Marina and Southport Marina in autoroute mode to get the route.
I run boats with the latest and greatest electronics packages, and I inevitably end up with my iPhone with Navionics in my palm for navigating. It's just so much easier to use. The app is extremely inexpensive, and I have never recommended to anyone who didn't thank me for doing so.
I will check out the app. thanks !
Would it be worth it to get to the gulf stream when heading north,for some extra push ?
Thanks again.