YIKES! - The Hook claims another victim

[Treebeard63]

I Don't blame the Hook.. it's been there a long time.. so have the buoys that mark the safe channel.. this, as always in this spot, is caused by trying to cut corners...

[NoLimit]

The navionics chart costs a bit but it is right on the money even for the river buoys in Highlands and Sea Bright.

However, never ever trust the chart and always hug the opposite side when in doubt. Hug the red side at the tip and the mouth of the Shrewsbury, hug the green side in the Navesink going thru the S's

[Chris G]

There is a red and a green. Stay between them and you have nothing to worry about. You can clearly see them on a radar. When in doubt stay west of the entire channel and there's nothing to worry about. I don't get it why people flirt w danger. Thank God no one fishing the beach was run over.

[bulletbob]

I don't get it.. Never once in my life have I considered the Hook a hazardous area to navigate.. The only problem is that it can get rough in the wind with nasty rips and rollers in bad weather, and then you need to consider the conditions and take appropriate precautions.

If one is running north along the beach , stay 1/2 mile from shore and hang a left at the bouys into the bay, you will never have a problem, even without nav equipment. Lots of boaters with old clunkers and no radar, or even GPS navigate the area every day, with never an issue. There are just too many idiots with more money than brains, with big fancy expensive boats that want to go tear assing around @50 knots in the dark, or drunk, or both, and either kill themselves and their friends, or run their $100k boat 30 yards up onto the sand.

I am not much of a boater by an stretch,but I never saw the hook as an especially bad area to navigate, yet every year we see pics of boats on the beach, upside down, torn to bits etc... Just need to be alert and drive the boat properly for the conditions....bob

[NoLimit]

1/2 mile off shore to avoid rollers? I am not sure about that. The calmer water is often in the false channel, hugging the beach.