Harvey Cedars NJ

/ shellerina

Anchored here for the night.

But how did we get here? AND How did we get “in” here?

Thursday 9/12

We departed Captain Bill’s Landing to transit the Pleasant Point Canal close to slack tide / flood begins (12:30pm), in the southerly direction; heading for NJ’s ICW!

We have heard good things about the Metedeconk River anchorage, which is one of the first anchorages south of the Pleasant Point Canal. That river goes in (west) quite a bit … for good protection. Kinda a big side trip, but good IF you need some protection.

We chose Kettle Creek instead… it shows a bit more progress south for our day’s effort.

Kettle Creek is a bigger “bay” than it appears on the chart. But we were able to find a good spot in the lee of land to drop the hook. It worked for us this day/evening.

A good anchorage if in lighter airs.

Friday

We were awake before sunrise to have some tide beneath us for the way south to Harvey Cedars.

Shelly snags a sun rising after we weigh anchor!

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Harry Cedars NJ

There is narrow dredged channel into the Harry Cedars anchorage!

How do you like your stake?

Fortunately, this narrow channel is well marked with pairs of stakes.
Obviously, these squares are kept to port on the way IN.
A small “rag hanger” passes outside one of the outer stakes, close to NJ’s ICW.

The third pair of stakes entering this area is missing the triangle starboard stake.

Be sure to stay CLOSE that single square one upon exiting. We polished our prop exiting.

Our chart plotter’s rendition of our actual path and anchor spot.

Anyway, that’s how we got to Harvey Cedars!

This was our second time in this part of NJ ICW; we were more relaxed this time compared to our first time. So far, so good.

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