Plan the run
a typical 26 ft centre console · 26 kt cruise · 2 ft draft. Conditions are sampled leg by leg, at the time you'd actually be there.
Pick a departure inside the next 48 hours to see conditions along the way.
Straight line between the two points, coloured by how rough each stretch will be when you get there. It does not follow the channel — use the chart and the ICW layer on the Map tab for that.
Add about 50 minutes of waiting to the run time, at the departure you picked. Leave ten minutes earlier or later and these change completely.
Arriving 4:03pm, the next opening is 4:30pm — a 27 minute wait. Do not give up on the one you just missed: you are 3 minutes past the 4:00pm opening, and 33 CFR 117.821(b) lets the tender hold a required opening up to ten minutes past — until 4:10pm. Hail him on VHF 13 (working), 16 (hailing).
Fixed bridge, 66 ft at mean high water. Nothing to wait for.
Fixed bridge, 64 ft at mean high water. Nothing to wait for.
Arriving 5:37pm, the next opening is 6:00pm — a 23 minute wait. Do not give up on the one you just missed: you are 7 minutes past the 5:30pm opening, and 33 CFR 117.821(b) lets the tender hold a required opening up to ten minutes past — until 5:40pm. Hail him on VHF 13.
These waits assume you need an opening. Add your air draft to your profile and any bridge you fit under drops out of the total.
Along the way
12 legs · at your arrival time| At | Time | Wind | Seas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 nm | 4:01 PM | — | — |
| 8.3 nm | 4:12 PM | — | — |
| 12.5 nm | 4:23 PM | — | — |
| 16.7 nm | 4:34 PM | — | — |
| 20.8 nm | 4:45 PM | — | — |
| 25.0 nm | 4:56 PM | — | — |
| 29.1 nm | 5:07 PM | — | — |
| 33.3 nm | 5:18 PM | — | — |
| 37.5 nm | 5:28 PM | — | — |
| 41.6 nm | 5:39 PM | — | — |
| 45.8 nm | 5:50 PM | — | — |
| 50.0 nm | 6:01 PM | — | — |
Forecast grid unavailable — conditions along the route are not shown.
Wind and seas are sampled from the forecast grid at each leg's position and at the hour you are expected to be there. Distances follow ICW mile markers where both ends sit on the waterway. Planning aid only — not for navigation.