WWW.ANNAPOLISYACHTSALES.COM channel cut through it making the apmust take care. The actual channel is proach quite easy (Note the channel is not at all where the charts show it. The being dredged in 2015 to bring it back deep channel shown west and north of to 20-foot depth, so you may see commercial dredge activity when you are entering.) ##The barque Picton Castle and As you enter the town harlighthouse at Cape Charles. bor, on the right you’ll see the cement plant, a major local employer which makes high-end concrete components for bridge construction and tunnels. The town marina is on your left. Smitty Dize the Harbormaster and his crew will greet you and help you get secured in your slip. There is a nice restaurant right on the marina grounds called the Chanty. Or you can take the five-minute walk across the train yard into the town itself for more restaurants and shopping. G3 has filled in along the western side. If you are continuing up Cherrystone For about a mile north of the town Channel to enter Kings Creek, you harbor, you must stay between the rows
of crab trap floats until you get to R2A, G3, and R4. Here the channel turns hard to starboard. Stay close to the reds, and you will carry eight feet of water. Proceed about half a mile east to R6. Between R6 and R8, the channel remains seven feet deep, but it narrows to as little as 50 feet wide. It would be best to check that no traffic approaches from the other direction as you enter this 300yard stretch of the channel. As of mid-June 2015 there were several two-inch PVC pipes marked with red and green paint marking the edges of the channel, and they are very precisely located. Once past R8, the channel is deep and wider and leads you to the Oyster Farm Marina (formerly Kings Creek Marina), one of the nicest resort marinas on the Chesapeake, located
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