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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.

Starting from
Wrightsville Beach (home port)
Going to
🏖 Sandbar⚓ Anchorage
No forecast for this run

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.

Bridges on this run

Add about 12 minutes of waiting to the run time, at the departure you picked. Leave ten minutes earlier or later and these change completely.

12
min waiting
+8
11:52am
The Figure Eight bridgemile 278.1

Arriving 11:52am, the next opening is 12:00pm — an 8 minute wait.

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12:35pm
The Surf City bridgemile 260.9

Fixed bridge, 66 ft at mean high water. Nothing to wait for.

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12:57pm
The North Topsail / Sneads Ferry high-risemile 252.3

Fixed bridge, 64 ft at mean high water. Nothing to wait for.

+4
1:26pm
The Lejeune bridgemile 240.7

Arriving 1:26pm, the next opening is 1:30pm — a 4 minute wait.

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.

Distance
50.0 nm
Run time
131 min
Fuel there
26.7 gal
Arrive
Fri 1:50 PM

Along the way

12 legs · at your arrival time
AtTimeWindSeas
4.2 nm11:51 AM——
8.3 nm12:01 PM——
12.5 nm12:12 PM——
16.7 nm12:23 PM——
20.8 nm12:34 PM——
25.0 nm12:45 PM——
29.1 nm12:56 PM——
33.3 nm1:07 PM——
37.5 nm1:18 PM——
41.6 nm1:29 PM——
45.8 nm1:39 PM——
50.0 nm1:50 PM——

Forecast grid unavailable — conditions along the route are not shown.

✈ Full briefingDetails

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.