Is the NWS coastal waters forecast a good resource for conditions at the jetties? Thanks…
No, if I wanted to know what the jetties looked like, I would be reading the Charleston harbor forecast. The little stretch between the fort and the jetties will be rougher than the conditions inside the jetties usually.
The jetties can get ugly if the tide flow and the wind oppose.
Sometimes that’s the toughest part of the ride in or out! Washing machine!
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You thinking about yak’ing it?
I wouldn’t.
As 23, Pen, and Nature said, Drunken Dick can get a 2-3’ tightly packed chop with waves running in every direction at the same time. “Washing machine” is right. Add, a lot of potential traffic, some of it huge and fast, and you can get some unexpected challenges.
Drunken Dick is a great name for that area. The name came from a shoal off of Sullivan’s before the jetties went in. Now, it refers to the area just outside of Ft. Sumter that is an intersection of the flows in the main channel, dynamite hole, the bay behind Morris Island/Cummings Pt., and the low spot in the rocks just off of Sullivan’s. Flow going and coming to/from that many directions can make a mess.
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A few of us yak guys have been out there a number of times. We stay on the outside of the north jetty, launching off Sullivans Island, heading straight out…