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Has anyone run NTI this weekend? How is the water? Is the dredge still there? Any advise on running at low tide? Have the buoys moved?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Like Hoss says...dredge is still there....looked like it would be hard to get around them working. We were just riding and went down the sound yesterday.
I rode out to the inlet this morning, but did not go out. The Fry was working and he said there is a 6' deep channel that is 75 feet wide so far at low tide. He said you go to just short of the #4 nun and the #3 can on the way out and take a heading of 135 magnetic and you should be in the channel. He said it is getting better each day, but will be a little longer before it is in good shape.
We have funding to work until the 15th and certainly will try to open the channel for safer navigation. You have been following along with our weather and sea conditions and there have been challenges out there.
The Coast Guard is also working toward getting the buoys moved, but just in the same breath had safety issues with trying to safely stay on station long enough to remove and relocate buoys.
We performed some survey yesterday, but I haven't seen results.
Thanks for your report. I will pass this along to our operators and again, we will keep working at for as long as we are able.
More data from Roger Bullock.
We assisted the USCG in relocating buoys 1 and 2, and the other buoys are now correct. Our Dredge Fry Captain was on top of the situation to coordinate with the USCG to make the buoys match to deeper water. Captain saw a lot of struggling boaters looking for passage.
There's 1 thing I'm unsure about. Do the cans move? I had imagined they are anchored in place with a 10' by 10' cube of concrete, am I wrong? If they don't move then why not use the coordinates from the previous year to redo the channel? All these questions are irrelavent if the cans migrate.
The cans do not migrate, but the inlet does. So they find where the natural inlet has moved to dredge it deeper, and then move the buoys according to the new survey. It sounds like the dredge will continue to work through the 15th, as the inlet is in pretty bad shape now at low tide.
The cans do not migrate, but the inlet does. So they find where the natural inlet has moved to dredge it deeper, and then move the buoys according to the new survey. It sounds like the dredge will continue to work through the 15th, as the inlet is in pretty bad shape now at low tide.
I don't know what they anchor those things with, but they generally do stay put. Except after hurricanes. I remember seeing a couple of the cans w-a-y offshore after Floyd, but that's understandable. Their anchor is only as good as the shifting pile of sand they're on top of.
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We went out Topsail early Sat AM with the tide fairly low and falling. It was not bad at all. The least I saw on the sounder was around 6'. Hopefully it will stay this way until it is time for the dredge again.
New Topsail Inlet 
