Morgan Yachts 45

The Morgan Yachts 45 is a Masthead Sloop designed by Charles Morgan Jr. and built by Morgan Yachts between 1966 and 1970, with its tooling later used for the Starrat & Jenks 45. It has a Long Keel hull, an LOA of 13.9 meters, a beam of 3.4 meters, a draft of 1.9 meters, and a displacement of 11,339 kg. Aboard *Maryland School of Sailing*, a Morgan 45 ketch named *Rockhopper* completed 16 transits of the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), covering the route from mile marker zero to mile marker 1095 in Biscayne Bay.1:24 The ICW is primarily a motoring route, with sailing possible only in larger sounds like Albemarle and Pamlico.1:48 For navigation, *Rockhopper* used a binnacle chartplotter, the *Intracoastal Waterway Chartbook*, and AquaMaps on an iPad with Army Corps of Engineers survey data.4:28 A MapTech chart kit provided daily planning.8:45 Crowdsourced depth and anchorage data came from ActiveCaptain and bobicw.blogspot.com, which publishes GPX tracks updated for shoaling, including recent reroutes around Spooner Creek and Browns Inlet.14:33 ICW buoy markings differ from standard IALA, with yellow triangles and squares overriding standard red/green meanings, making night travel risky.41:35 Bridge clearance is nominally 65 feet.44:28