Mistakes I've Made Sailing the ICW

[@lao1944]

How informative all of your videos are. Your detailed explanations are so helpful. Well done indeed! Thank you.

[@steadmanuhlich6734]

Another very helpful video. Thank you for producing it and using good illustrations and clear narration. Well done!

[@quintonlocklear3504]

Walker - I hope things are well in the UK. I never comment on KZbin but your videos really are top shelf! I'm slowly working my way through you catalog with much enjoyment. My house is in your ICW 2013 video just south of the little river swing bridge about 1/2 mile before the rock garden. I giggled when I saw it. As a local I still hit that damn coquina that was blasted away years ago. There are plenty of stories along that stretch and with the anchorage you selected at Calabash crossroads. Your video(s) have motivated me to reach out more to cruisers that are in my back yard. Not just southern hospitality but hopefully to meet interesting cool cats like yourself that have a wealth of usable knowledge. Let us know if you do a return trip to our area as you are a welcomed guest! All the best. Quint 1982 Grady White Swordfish

[@smacksman1]

I'm glad you found my poor attempts at filming entertaining, Quinton. My cheap camera does not do justice to the beauty of America.

[@bobf6000]

Always enjoy your videos. Hope you are well.

[@smacksman1]

Thanks Bob. I'm fine except for a broken leg! On the mend now but it makes you think of the times I bashed myself sailing the boat single handed. So easy to make one silly slip after one silly lack of concentration.

[@sailingvesselsouthernlady447]

Well done! Thanks for the lessons

[@RemodNC]

Excellent bit of instruction! Thank you!

[@bluemaxx2006]

Well done, as usual Sir. M

[@cawfeedawg]

Good info.. THanks for sharing it.

[@cathrynm]

This is great. Lovely video!

[@3DSAILOR]

Thank you...great information.

[@MichaelMarko]

Thanx so much for this

[@smacksman1]

You are very welcome. Roger

[@ford4x4460]

why does national geographic come to mind when im watching your video :) good job its nice to know things do happened to other people despite all your planning

[@smacksman1]

Ha Ha! I've dropped many clangers in my sailing life. Just lucky to come through unscathed.

[@milliondollar2981]

Great video!!,good job,,thanks Hey can I ask where you bought your chart from they looked better than the ones I just ordered your seem to have a lot more detail which to buy them online or at a boating shop or wherever if you don't mind thanks

[@smacksman1]

Hi Million Dollar ( I wish!) , they are just regular NOAA charts available for free from their website. You can download them and use them on an iPad or similar or do what I do and use them through activecaptain.com which then gives you a mass of information on marinas, bridges, hazards and loads more. Most GPS Map consols use them together with Navionics charts or similar. The USA is brilliant in this regard. In the UK we have to pay big money for the same coverage although our charts are also very good.

[@ny1t]

The ICW markers are marked with small yellow triangles and squares indicating whether nun or can with respect to the ICW. When in doubt looking for this yellow mark helps you assure you are looking at an ICW marker. If you come to a can on the ICW there should be a yellow square. A nun has a yellow triangle. BUT, if the ICW marker is counter to the waterway marker, such as being a can on a river but a nun on the ICW, the marker will be a green can with a yellow triangle. The image with question 3 on this link shows the #5 with a yellow square indicating an ICW can where #7 Shows a yellow triangle indicating an ICW nun. The ICW on this image passes between #5 and #7. www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/identaid.htm

[@smacksman1]

You are quite correct. In practice I find I can see the shape of the mark first a few hundred yards/metres off, and then the colour. Then much closer I can see the name or number and finally the yellow mark. By that time I'm committed to passing it on the right side (hopefully!) when I can see the shape of the yellow mark. So in practice the yellow shapes were not of much use. The boatsafe webpage is a good site but it may be a good idea to state that it is only for US waters. The rest of the world has red left returning.

[@ny1t]

Your video was referring to the ICW. Boatsafe was the first site I happened onto that described the ICW marking with images. When you were in the rock pile (4:48), I saw a nun and I could barely make out the triangle in your video. A quick look through my binoculars would allow me to confirm what it is long before I got to it. Any time I plan my daily route, I try to become as familiar as I can with the area markings especially when I see a confluence. Changing shoals makes me extra cautious. If I remember correctly, the little River #2 you mentioned had a #2 with a ICW mark for the main channel and a #2 without one for the Calabash Creek. It is important to know that the ICW convention is red right returning from NY to TX. The thing I noticed about Beaufort, SC, is the buoy you mentioned at 0:50 is for the Port Royal Reach Channel, #41. This is for the dredged channel to the NW. You are coming from the NE where the markers are in the #240 range. Changing from #244 to #41 was the clue that you had a changing channels markers scheme. The buoyage didn't reverse. It was proper for the channel it was marking. It just happened to not be the channel you were on.

[@ernestr1327]

You could be the voice narrator on anamal planet shows or discovery channel......

[@OverlandSea]

Very informative :)