![]() We passed the Currituck shortly after clearing the bridge. We had noticed the CoE dredge Currituck, which we've seen before, moored inside the river on our AIS, so we were only a bit (pleasantly) surprised. We found closer to 20' for the whole width instead, and I confirmed with the tender that they've been dredging the inlet over the past few weeks. I had arrived armed with US Army Corps of Engineers depth surveys from January, which showed just nine feet on the north quadrant of the entrance channel. Nevertheless the bridge was well open in plenty of time. The bridge tender is very responsive, and I only had a brief moment of pucker outside in the roiling current, with a brief delay between the traffic gates lowering and the spans raising. ![]() Shark River Inlet and the Ocean Avenue bridge from our anchorage this morning. The Ocean Avenue bascule bridge is immediately inside the inlet, just a few feet past the jetties, and, with a couple of knots of current behind us, we'd need the bridge fully open well before we got to it. We opted to have dinner en route, so we wouldn't be tackling a challenging inlet on an empty stomach. We had moderate seas and a bit of a push throughout the day yesterday, and we arrived at the inlet right around 7pm. Other than hauling up pounds of seaweed and dozens upon dozens of tenacious juvenile mussels when we weighed anchor this morning, it was a surprisingly pleasant stop. This morning found us in the designated anchorage basin on the Shark River, in Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey ( map).
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