Planning for next season - information request

[Jim Seamans]

I'm interested in the "Little Wicomico River" at Sandy Point located at Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay.http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=37.877292,-76.243057&spn=0.219505,0.317917&t=p&z=12&om=1What's the entrance like? Looks like a great gunkhole to explore.JimS/V Java edit: tried to add link to google map but stoped at the comma.

 

[Roger (Ninette Manitoba)]

wicomico connection

I've sent you a private e-mail with the address of someone who just sailed out of there a week or so ago, and are headed down the ICW.

 

[Broke sailor SV Marcell]

Little Wicomico

Hey Jim:We were considering overniting there when we took the boat down to DVL but didn't because the Cruising Guide made it sound so risky.

 

[dave]

little wicomico

Jimthis inlet has an odd entrance, you will need to do your preplanning, once in side beautiful and serene, a couple of nice marinas, plenty of gunkholing...can be a bit shallow in places but well worth at least weekend, if not more.The charts show 5' and it was jsut dredged, but if you draw over that, make sure you come in on the tide...flow can be add a bit of current as well. Smith Point Marina is here, and abit up the river is Krentz marine who made(makes) a bunch of the tour boats in the area. They also have 2 or 3 dozen wood boats (Chris, egg harbor, trojan, hatteras, etc) that are beautiful and in progress.A good write up is in the "Guide to cruising the Chesapeake Bay"dave

 

[Bad Obsession]

Would Make me nervous

I worked on a charter boat that went in and out of the Little Wicomico to fish out in the bay. It was docked at a marina up there. That channel can get pretty rough when you are going out of there and the wind and tide are wrong. It also is shallow enough that if it was rough we were concerned about bumping bottom. As I remember it is a sandy bottom and it isn't as forgiving as the mud bottom that is around most of the bay. My uncle has been sailing the Bay for 20 years and he WILL NOT go into the little W. If you are heading in that dirction from Cobb Island, try the Coan River. It has good depth and holding. When you enter the river from the Potomac keep to the right. There is a store there in the area of the river if you need supplies and you can dingy up to it. You actually would ancor in the place near Lewisetta. The first cove in there behind the point is a great place.From the Coan river it is a day or less sail to Deltaville (I have done that in REALLY BAD weather, Deltaville to the Coan, I am sure that you are familiar with the strong North West Wind that blows directly out of the Potomac and much of us find it when we are trying to get into the Potomac River from the Bay).Go into Google maps and type Coan River and it will show you what I am talking about or type in Lewisetta.