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It shows in electronic raster charts using the Skipper App on my iPhone, and it also shows the ActiveCaptain comments as follows:
ActiveCaptain Hazard Marker #2 comment:
"Narrow and poorly marked passage with numerous submerged rocks. Charts are not always accurate east of Goose Rocks and continuing up Little Thoroughfare. Consider going around the Fox Islands Thoroughfare side of Stimpsons Island and south of Goose Rocks."
User-contributed comment:
"Better Safe than Sorry
Date: 2011-06-07
Captain: sjtall, Sorrento, ME (64)
Motoring in our sloop (5'2" draft) from west to east, cut the corner to the east of Goose Rocks a little too close and slammed a ledge. It was a quiet morning in the off season, slack tide, minimal current. The passage is littered with many rocks - from the light at Goose Rocks at the west to the east end of Little Thorofare. Don't trust the charts or your GPS. Keep an active watch at the bow and go slow. Better yet, go to the south of Stimpsons Island."
Messages In This Thread
- This rock has sunk some boats, including mine.
- Ouch... I'm guessing there will be a serious reduction in her $2.4 million asking price....
- It's marked and the crowd sourced data accurate
- Here is a picture of the latest....
- I don't think the rock has moved, digitally or otherwise, Jon.
- Here's the spot. It's a wide open heavily traveled path.
- While the boat appears to be built like a tank, the spar is questionable.
- Good info
- Why no day danger mark?
- There's a slightly wider route just to the south of there
- While the boat appears to be built like a tank, the spar is questionable.
- Here's the spot. It's a wide open heavily traveled path.
- It's marked and the crowd sourced data accurate
- Scuttlebutt is over, lips are sealed,... CG has started an investigation.
- Coming into our marina this evening..
- This thread reminds me of one of Don Street's yarns . . .
- Ouch... I'm guessing there will be a serious reduction in her $2.4 million asking price....