Jupiter Inlet Sandbar

[thoward]

Look at the top left and you will see a very large sandbar blocking part of the inlet.

 

[34Hatt]

Looks just like Moriches Inlet we are use to Inlets like that. They would dredge but don't want to disturb the piping plover!!!!!

 

[Boatsb]

That on is ease compared to Moriches in th 80's. You can see it.

 

[jlightonjr]

The Jupiter Inlet is always changing with regard to where the sand bar will pop up. We are about a 2 minute drive from the inlet its fun to watch some of the big SF's go blasting out of the inlet when its rough... The color of the water is amazing on a nice sunny day!

Local knowledge required for sure... When we had our boat down here we used the Palm Beach Inlet as our ocean entry point...

 

[luckydave215]

Try the Columbia bar sometime...winter time on an ebb tide is the most interesting.

 

[jlightonjr]

I like your choice of words - "most interesting." Entering/Exiting Inlets -- as you pointed out can be very "interesting" and or dangerous when you have "new" boaters at a helm...

Try the Columbia bar sometime...winter time on an ebb tide is the most interesting.

 

[yachtbrokerguy]

Back in the early 1970's I was running a crew boat and my company got a contract to bring the workers out Jupiter Inlet to a dredge pumping sand onto the beach. Before I got there I checked the Coast Pilot and I read the Inlet was not a navigable inlet, used only by small local fishing boats. When I arrived with my 50' steel crewboat with a pair of 12V71's, there was a sign saying CLOSED TO NAVIGATION.

I borrowed a Whaler with a recording depth finder and charted the inlet enough to find a twisting channel for myself. The big problem was coming in at night as there were no markers. I was able to put red reflective tape on a lifeguard stand on the beach, and use it as a range marker with a streetlight in the parking lot. I just hoped every night that the lifeguards never moved that lifeguard stand!

Tucker Fallon