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Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski
- If you're not familiar with an inlet make sure you have charts so you are aware of the correct approach... Some have rock remnants that are out a good distance from the mouth of the inlet that may be submerged during high tide.
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Couldn't agree more. A few years back after a day outside, we ran into the Barni during a following sea. Some schmuck on a bowrider came screaming across the submerged jetti. Never have I been more afraid, not for my safety, but for the little kids enjoying a day on the water in the back of that boat. Capn spins the 21 CC we're riding on a dime and we mash the gas toward them as they skim across the top of the water and keep moving through the inlet at full throttle. With them somehow being safe, we plow through the snot back out to make entrance #2 into the inlet. A hundred yards in and the inlet starts to play nasty, the boat leans to port, then back to starboard (where I was standing holding the windscreen) as the water disappears beneath our feet and all I see is sand. Capn backs off the gas, boat is dropping as the water fills in and we roll up the back of another wave. Can never let your guard down, and when you think you're being the nice guy and helping out, mother nature comes along to slap you on the back of your head to remind you who is really the boss.
