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NC: Alligator Pungo Canal MM 124.6 Stump
- Date Reported: Feb 15, 2025
- Reporter: Bob423
- Source: User
- Description:
Stump was encountered by a boat with 4.5 ft draft (not a floating log), causing the boat to suddenly stop with injury to the crew. Stay in the middle of the channel and follow the Bob423 track. The stump is 26 feet to the north of the Bob423 track.
- Lat / Lon: N 35° 33.557' / W 076° 25.072'
2 Boater Comments
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Comment by: Roger Long, Gypsy Star, on Feb 22, 2025
Vessel Type: Power
LOA: 43'
Draft: 4.0'I think this report may point out the dangers of the increasingly popular "Bob Tracking" navigation. Although Bob's research and tracks are invaluable in trouble spots, following them is not necessary on about 95% of the ICW. This accident could have happened almost anywhere on the Alligator Pongo Canal with a report like this eventually being posted about every 100 feet. GPS will occasionally be off by as much as 30 feet and maintaining constant vigilance of the banks ahead and keeping to the center of the channel is essential to safe navigation of this cut. Eyes down on the chart plotter as I see so many boaters doing as they pass can distract from navigational ''"Job One" in places like this.
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Comment by: Zachary Shipley, East by South, on Feb 15, 2025
Vessel Type: Power
LOA: 58'
Draft: 4.2'It has been reported to me by word of mouth that my former Selene 53 (named "Adrift at last" when I owned her, now named "Day by Day") snagged one of its Naiad stabilizer fins on a stump on the Alligator River and, contrary to popular lore, the fin did not snap off, but the entire actuator tore put of the hull leaving a gash several feet long, and the vessel was a total loss. I don't know whether this Nav Alert refers to that event or to another.
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