Southward in Roamer; being a description of the inside route from New York to Florida by Roome Henry Clay 1838-1916

Author:Roome, Henry Clay, 1838-1916
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Yachts and yachting, Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New york London, The Rudder publishing company
Published: 1907-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

not be successfully navigated without some previous acquaintance with it, although boats of three feet draught could pick their way over at high tide, which here rises five feet. It is a very handy place to run into in case one should be so delayed in coming from Beaufort as to be unable to reach the cape before dark, as this Cape Slue Passage requires daylight for its safe passage.

In approaching Cape Fear, we steer for the life-saving station at the point of the cape to within about three-eighths mile from shore, and follow shore round at this distance until we can plainly see the breaker on the innermost or Western edge of Frying-pan Shoals, between which and the shore is the channel, having a least depth of twelve feet. If the sea is smooth, this breaker will be the only one seen, but if there is much sea on, there will also be a breaker on the point extending from the beach on the mainland. The channel lies between these breakers, and best water is close to the Eastern breaker. We skirt the edge of the Eastern breaker until well past the new lighthouse on the point, and then, steer Northwest by West, five-eighths West to one of the black channel buoys five miles distant, and then follow up the buoys to Southport. If for any reason it is impossible to reach Corncake before dark, the only alternative is to go out around Frying-pan Shoals Lightship, as it is dangerous to cross the shoals after dark. This would make the journey 30 miles longer, but from the Southern side of the shoals, the harbor on account of its excellent range lights is easily entered at night. From the lightship steer Northwest by West nine miles until up to the whistling buoy, then steering a North Northwest course

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