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A sailboat transits the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) near Beaufort, North Carolina, navigating shallow, current-swept channels and bascule bridges.7:34 The crew maintains a strict schedule to meet half-hourly bridge openings, occasionally accelerating to clear transit windows.4:37 While the route features wide, open stretches of water, the vessel frequently encounters depths as shallow as 0.9 meters under the keel, necessitating precise adherence to the marked channel despite discrepancies between Navionics charts and real-time sounder readings.2:06 The crew manages a Katadyn watermaker, noting that production efficiency fluctuates with battery voltage levels.8:34 During the passage, the crew observes dolphins and experiences reduced visibility caused by smoke haze drifting from Canadian wildfires.3:50 Upon reaching the anchorage near Beaufort, the crew deploys a mooring buoy to signal their position to local powerboat traffic, which frequently ignores "no wake" zones.7:22 The transit covers approximately 40 nautical miles, concluding with the crew refueling from jerrycans and monitoring local weather patterns via Windy.16:28

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