| Chart Name: | BEAUFORT INLET & PART OF COR |
| Scale: | 1:40000 |
| Edition #: | 63 |
| Edition Date: | 04/01/08 | (NM 09/06/08) | (LNM 09/02/08) |
| Last Update: | 07/16/08 |
| Description: | Back Sound, southward of Harkers Island, and The Straits, which parallel Back Sound on the opposite side of the island, provide two marked routes from Core Sound to a junction with the Morehead City Harbor Channel at Beaufort Inlet. The northern route leads westward through The Straits and along the northerly side of Middle Marshes; the southerly route leads westward through Back Sound and along the southerly side of Middle Marshes. Both routes have several shoals close to the channels. The chart is the best guide.
Lookout Bight, on the west side of Cape Lookout, affords good anchorage for large vessels, except with winds from south through west to northwest. Power Squadron Spit, the west side of Lookout Bight, is subject to continual change and is partially protected by a rubblestone breakwater awash at low water and hardly visible when a heavy sea is running; its outer end is marked by a lighted buoy about 300 yards northwestward of its seaward end. Mariners should give it a wide berth in bad weather. |
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| NM = Notice to Mariners LNM = Local Notice to Mariners |
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