T&T: Good Karma and rock avoidance

[Peter Bennett]

Monday, September 18, 2006, 1:11:57 PM, Scott wrote:

SHEW> I keep my trawler at the "marina to starboard" you mention, about 200 feet
SHEW> from the rock, and we watch about a boat a day go aground on the rock -- as
SHEW> an FYI, it's Oregon Rock in Newcastle Channel. At very low tides the water is
SHEW> only about 6 inches deep. I draw almost 7 feet, so needless to say I treat
SHEW> that channel with caution. 

Is that the beacon that used to have the "Keep Right" (or Left, as appropriate) signs and arrows pointing to the preferred channel?  Have those private additions to the beacon been removed?


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Peter Bennett, VE7CEI    Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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