Thank you Captain that was very clear. I don't have a boat but I am a fisherman so it was very interesting. Amazing how shallow the bay is in general in comparison to the Inlet.
We run the inlet a lot, the jetty does not stick out past the red marker parallel to the 7 green. That chart is accurate with the red symbols of where the rocks are. Most of us enter the inlet by coming from the north, staying east of the red and west of the shoal marked by that yellow symbol, then banking a hard right into the main inlet channel. It is about 15ft the whole time. Rarely do people go we see people go straight out the inlet, but to be fair we are not sailing.
Love it. I grew up on the Barnegat Bay, and fondly recall sneaking out and in the inlet when a teenager in a 14’ Boston Whaler with a 28 SPL Johnson hanging on the back. “Sneaking” because I was 13 or 14 and was expressly forbidden from heading all the way over there from Barnegat, and certainly not allowed to navigate the inlet. Recently we had opportunity to enter the inlet in a sailboat (under power) after being away for 30 years and it was… interesting. Breaking waves, competing currents… not as fun as I remember, given I was now trying this in an underpowered vessel.
This inlet is dangerous if you have never been through it. Good advice given in video. It’s known as one of most dangerous inlets in the country because of sunken rocks that he speaks about. This inlet has take. Many boats over the years.
I am curious. This rocks you speak of outside the marker, toward the northeast. I run the inlet many times a year, for 20+ years, and have never seen anyone on rocks in the position you mention. I have seen plenty of them try to zip in BEHIND the marker and have an incident as the rocks tend to be covered or hard to see during anything but low tide. I see, and have followed many, many boats thats come in from the north around the marker to avoid the rough water over the rising bar just directly out the inlet. Are these rocks something that affects only very deep draft vessels?
The William thank you for comment I'm responding as sailboat usually we have to take consideration the 4 to 6 or 8 feat below the boat if you have kayaks this is not a problem
Your video is inaccurate. There are no submerged rocks east of the north monument as you highlighted. The weir (submerged jetty) is WEST of the monument and clearly shown on charts. And, running straight in the marked channel from B1 is the worst approach given all the shoaling and breaking waves. All local captains run in the deep water to the north and outside the marked channel, cutting in to the inlet just east of the north monument. And, the photo you show at 10:29 of the boat wreck on the old submerged rocks that are SOUTH of the SOUTH jetty. They are not near any marked channel.
I will be very careful using kayak over there especially around the entrance to the inlet one big boat running very fast in a narrow channel creating a big wave also the current situation can turn you around or even upside down I am not recommend trying that
I've run the inlet twice in my Ocean Kayak and it was very expert level stuff both times. Mostly due to the amount of fast and large boat wakes piling up on top of regular waves and tides. It's like a washing machine.
Thank you Captain that was very clear. I don't have a boat but I am a fisherman so it was very interesting. Amazing how shallow the bay is in general in comparison to the Inlet.
We run the inlet a lot, the jetty does not stick out past the red marker parallel to the 7 green. That chart is accurate with the red symbols of where the rocks are. Most of us enter the inlet by coming from the north, staying east of the red and west of the shoal marked by that yellow symbol, then banking a hard right into the main inlet channel. It is about 15ft the whole time. Rarely do people go we see people go straight out the inlet, but to be fair we are not sailing.
At the end where you drew that blue mark, that is where the rocks end. There are no rocks on that blue line.
Love it.
I grew up on the Barnegat Bay, and fondly recall sneaking out and in the inlet when a teenager in a 14’ Boston Whaler with a 28 SPL Johnson hanging on the back. “Sneaking” because I was 13 or 14 and was expressly forbidden from heading all the way over there from Barnegat, and certainly not allowed to navigate the inlet.
Recently we had opportunity to enter the inlet in a sailboat (under power) after being away for 30 years and it was… interesting. Breaking waves, competing currents… not as fun as I remember, given I was now trying this in an underpowered vessel.
This inlet is dangerous if you have never been through it. Good advice given in video. It’s known as one of most dangerous inlets in the country because of sunken rocks that he speaks about. This inlet has take. Many boats over the years.
I am curious. This rocks you speak of outside the marker, toward the northeast. I run the inlet many times a year, for 20+ years, and have never seen anyone on rocks in the position you mention. I have seen plenty of them try to zip in BEHIND the marker and have an incident as the rocks tend to be covered or hard to see during anything but low tide. I see, and have followed many, many boats thats come in from the north around the marker to avoid the rough water over the rising bar just directly out the inlet. Are these rocks something that affects only very deep draft vessels?
The William thank you for comment I'm responding as sailboat usually we have to take consideration the 4 to 6 or 8 feat below the boat if you have kayaks this is not a problem
Your video is inaccurate. There are no submerged rocks east of the north monument as you highlighted. The weir (submerged jetty) is WEST of the monument and clearly shown on charts. And, running straight in the marked channel from B1 is the worst approach given all the shoaling and breaking waves. All local captains run in the deep water to the north and outside the marked channel, cutting in to the inlet just east of the north monument. And, the photo you show at 10:29 of the boat wreck on the old submerged rocks that are SOUTH of the SOUTH jetty. They are not near any marked channel.
Does this apply to kayaks too?
I will be very careful using kayak over there especially around the entrance to the inlet one big boat running very fast in a narrow channel creating a big wave also the current situation can turn you around or even upside down I am not recommend trying that
I've run the inlet twice in my Ocean Kayak and it was very expert level stuff both times. Mostly due to the amount of fast and large boat wakes piling up on top of regular waves and tides. It's like a washing machine.
He’s not familiar with this inlet
not accurate.
This Video Needs to be removed.. this is not the proper way to enter BI.. !!!!!!!!!!