CoUNITEDas STATESt ® Atlantic Coast: , to Cape Henry, Virginia

2019 (52nd) Edition

This edition cancels the 51st Edition and includes all previously published corrections.

Weekly updates to this edition are available at: nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/coast-pilot/index.html They are also published in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) U.S. Notice to Mariners.

U.S. Department of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., Secretary of Commerce

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) RDML Timothy Gallaudet, Ph.D., USN Ret., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere

National Ocean Service Nicole R. LeBoeuf, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management

CG 037 NOAA Coast Pilot #3, extract pages Page 1 of 5 II U.S. Coast Pilot 3 21 APR 2019

76°W 75°W 74°W Coast Pilot 3 – Chapter Index Chapter 4 – New Jersey Coast Chapter 5 – Intracoastal Waterway Chapter 6 – Delaware Bay Chapter 7 – Chesapeake and Delaware Canal 41°N Chapter 8 – Delaware-Maryland-Virginia Coast Chapter 9 – Chesapeake Bay Entrance Chapter 10 – Chesapeake Bay, James River NEW JERSEY City Chapter 11 – Chesapeake Bay, York and Rappahannock Rivers Chapter 12 – Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River Chapter 13 – Chesapeake Bay, Patuxent and Severn Rivers Chapter 14 – Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore Chapter 15 – Baltimore to Head of Chesapeake Bay

77°W DELAWARE Philadelphia RIVER 40°N P ENNSYLV ANIA 7 4 Wilmington MARYLAND 5

Baltimore 15

DELAWARE BAY 39°N

Washington D.C. 6 12 13 DELAWARE POTOMAC RIVER 14 8 38°N

11 RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER

YORK Richmond RIVER

10 37°N Norfolk 9 VIRGINIA NORTH ATL ANTIC OCEAN

NORTH CAROLINA

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74°W 73°30'W Chart Coverage in Coast Pilot 3—Chapter 4 NOAA’s Online Interactive Chart Catalog has complete chart coverage http://www.charts.noaa.gov/InteractiveCatalog/nrnc.shtml NEW Y ORK

75°W 74°30'W Staten Island

40°30'N 12324 Sandy Hook 12325 NAVESINK RIVER

SHREWSBURY RIVER

Trenton

12326 MANASQUAN INLET

40°N Toms River

Y

NEW JERSEY A

B

T

A

G

E

N R BARNEGAT INLET A

B

MULLICA RIVER

39°30'N LITTLE EGG INLET 12323

Atlantic City ABSECON INLET

GREAT EGG HARBOR INLET Ocean City NORTH ATL ANTIC OCEAN 12316

HEREFORD INLET 39°N 12318 CAPE MAY INLET Cape May 12317

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Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey Image courtesy of Waterway Images (2004) N

(42) Mariners should exercise caution when entering marked by a lighted whistle buoy about 1.7 miles Manasquan Inlet when the winds and tides are opposed; southeast of the north jetty. The inlet is protected by two local knowledge is advised. jetties marked by lights. A sound signal is at the south

(43) jetty light. Two orange and white danger buoys are Pilotage, Manasquan Inlet northeast of the north jetty to mark the submerged jetty (44) Pilotage is compulsory for foreign vessels and U.S. between Light 6 and the exposed jetty. Buoys inside the vessels under register. Pilotage is available from the channel are moved frequently and not charted. Barnegat Association, 201 Edgewater Street, Light (39°45'51"N., 74°06'22"W.), on the south side of Staten Island, NY 10305, telephone 718-448-3900, fax the inlet, is the most prominent landmark in the area; it is 718-876-8055, e-mail: pilotoffice@sandyhookpilots. a 163-foot-high brick tower, dark red on its upper half com. Arrangements for pilotage may be made through and white on its lower half. The lighted tower is maintained ship’s agents or directly. A 24-hour advance notice is by the State of New Jersey as a historical monument. Also required. prominent from seaward is a 391-foot-high powerplant stack at the head of Oyster Creek, on the west side of (45) Barnegat Bay. ENCs - US4NJ23M, US5NJ30M (49) Barnegat Inlet Channel and Oyster Creek Channel Charts - 12323, 12324 are subject to continual change due to severe shoaling. The buoys marking these channels are shifted frequently (46) Bay Head, 2 miles south of Manasquan Inlet, is to mark the best water and therefore are not charted. marked by a prominent elevated water tank. From Bay Mariners are advised to use caution and local knowledge. Head south, the resorts are more widely spaced on the It was reported that various aids marking Oyster Creek low, narrow barrier beach which separates the inside Channel may be submerged because of strong tidal waters from the ocean. currents. Breakers make across the inlet with an ebb tide (47) Barnegat Inlet, 21 miles southward of Manasquan and an easterly wind. Strangers should not attempt to Inlet, forms a passage from the Atlantic Ocean through transit the inlet under any but ideal conditions. Boatmen Oyster Creek Channel to the New Jersey Intracoastal needing assistance should lay outside the inlet and contact Waterway and Barnegat Bay. The approach to the inlet is the local Coast Guard station.

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Absecon Inlet, New Jersey Image courtesy of Waterway Images (2004) N

(50) The current velocity in Barnegat Inlet is about 2.5 J24M knots in the inlet, although currents as high as 7 knots Charts - 12318, 12316 have been reported. (51) Barnegat Light is a resort town on the south side of (56) Little Egg Inlet(39°29’00”N., 74°17’30”W.), 19 Barnegat Inlet. The channel to the small-craft and fishing- miles south-southwestward of Barnegat Inlet and close boat facilities on the bay side of the town is marked by southward of Beach Haven Inlet, is used considerably privately maintained seasonal buoys or markers; these by local pleasure and fishing boats. Depth over the bar aids are not charted. is ample for any vessel that can navigate the inside (52) waters, but in very heavy weather breakers form all the ENCs - US4NJ23M, US5NJ20M, US5NJ24M way across the bar. The inlet channels and shoreline are Charts - 12323, 12316 constantly changing; the entrance is well marked, but the buoys are not charted because they are frequently shifted in position. In 2007, an unmarked partially submerged (53) Beach Haven Inlet (39°30.0'N., 74°15.1'W.), 17 miles south-southwestward of Barnegat Inlet, is wreck was reported at about 39°29'09"N., 74°17'31"W.; unmarked. Numerous wrecks and shoal spots are at the caution is advised. entrance. Due to changing conditions of the channel, (57) Brigantine Inlet, 2.6 miles south-southwestward of boatmen are advised to seek local knowledge prior to Little Egg Inlet, has shoaled to such an extent that it is entering. unsafe for even the shallowest drafts. Brigantine Shoal, 3 miles south of the inlet, has a least depth of 18 feet. (54) The entrance to Beach Haven Inlet should not be mistaken for Little Egg Inlet, which is close southward. (58) Absecon Inlet, 8.7 miles southwestward of Little Beach Haven Coast Guard Station is inside the barrier Egg Inlet, is on the northeast side of Atlantic City, the beach, 3.2 miles north of Beach Haven Inlet. largest resort on the New Jersey coast. The inlet is protected at the entrance by jetties; a revetment extends (55) along the Atlantic City side of the inlet. Small-craft ENCs - US4NJ22M, US5NJ25M, US5NJ20M, US5N- facilities are available at a hotel marina on the southwest side of the inlet. (60) The entrance channel is subject to continual change and the buoys are frequently shifted to mark the best water. CG 037 NOAA Coast Pilot #3, extract pages Page 5 of 5