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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
May 10, 2009
Description:
High Tide
Date Taken:
May 10, 2009
Place Taken:
Okatie SC
Owner:
Bill Hobson
File Name:
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Category:
52, SeaRey People
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Dan Nickens - May 10,2009
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That's beautiful, Bob. I'd be delighted to park my SeaRey there and watch the tide roll out.
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Don Maxwell - May 10,2009
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It looks long enough in Google Earth--but not too long. If approaching from the east, you'd have to clear those wires along the causeway. It would be easy to approach from the west, but you wouldn't have to go around at the last minute. There appear to be other landing places to the south, though, and the water looks good for step taxiing.
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Bob Hobson - May 11,2009
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Exactly my thinking. Approaching from the East and dropping down after the wires is <br />the safest way to go but if misjudged it might mean over-running into the reeds. At high <br />tide the reeds are widely scattered and are about 1 to 2 feet above the water. (There's a <br />good 3 to 4 feet of water to the mud where the reeds are.) Would taxiing through light <br />reeds be a bad idea? There is an immense body of water (the Colleton River) about 1/2 <br />mile to the Southwest but no clear channel through the reeds to get there. There is also <br />good water on the other side of the causeway but unless the wings fold there's no way <br />to get through the bridge that runs under the causeway. My original thought was to buy <br />an Icon, but it's more expensive than a Searey and probably 3-4 years away, if that. <br />When looking at Google Earth my dock is the one closest to the causeway.
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Don Maxwell - May 11,2009
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I'd take reeds before wires any day, Bob--er, Bill. Taxiing through them shouldn't be a problem at high tide, but at low tide the prop might clip them (until they all get clipped off). It's hard to tell from the Google photos, but you'll probably have enough room once you get used to the airplane and the location. It looks like you'd have the choice of landing E-W or N-S. If there's an east wind you could get stable and then set down right at the edge of the reeds. That should be easy enough, and you probably wouldn't need to worry about having to go around at that point.<br /><br />Taking off toward the wires is probably safe, too, by starting in the reeds.
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Kenneth Leonard - May 11,2009
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A reed through the prop, particularly if it has a cat tail head, would be an ouchie for the prop.<br />IF you have that one bad landing where you are at gross weight and drop it in from 5' up, you may need 3' of water under the hull for that instant. If you are landing in very shallow area, are you really sure there are no submerged logs, crab pots, anchors, x-girlfriends of senators, etc.?
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Bob Hobson - May 12,2009
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I have good visibility of the entire area at low tide (it's just a field of mud with scattered <br />oyster beds) and have traveled it quite a bit in our small boat. The whole thing may be <br />somewhat moot as I went out yesterday in the boat and found a path through sparse <br />reeds that was only about 1000' feet long that got me out into the Colleton river. My <br />GPS makes that a repeatable feat. It seems to me that if my boat (which drafts about 2' <br />at the prop) can get to that area that a Searey (although I don't know what it drafts) <br />should be able to do the same.
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