sticks in the H20

[landlubber-2]

Hello. I just got started into boating. Chesapeake bay area in particular. I've been on a few creeks in the area, and observed sticks, in the waterways. Somone told me these mark the deepest part of the channel. Is this pretty much common practice out there? Feel free to tell me about any of your local customs.

 

[tommays]

Re: sticks in the H20

on long islands south shore were its shallow and there are a lot of small creeks that dont get marked buy the CG its very common to see allmost anything sticking out of the water<br /><br />BUT i would allways proceed with caution until you no the local area sand is bad but ROCKS are worse<br /><br /><br />tommays

 

[Mark42]

Re: sticks in the H20

Ditto what tommays said. I have wandered in many a cove and ran the prop into the sand because it wasn't marked, or was marked by a tree branch that I thought was just, well, a tree branch. Go slow and be prepaired to shift to neutral ASAP in the face of impacting anything. Banging a prop in neutral at low speeds generally just makes a scratch or two. In gear and you mash the leading edge.

 

[Chris1956]

Re: sticks in the H20

Landlubber, When you say sticks, do you mean standard channel markers with red triangles and green squares on top of them? Or are you talking about "private aids to mariners"?

 

[Martin Berend]

Re: sticks in the H20

This was posted a loooong time ago but I'm going to throw my 2cents in anyway....<br /><br />I navigate the creeks around the Chesapeake a lot.<br /><br />It has been my experience that these "sticks" are often placed by locals to mark shallow points that the CG has not marked.<br /><br />More often the are placed to mark a waterman's oyster grounds.