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The Channels of Penobscot Bay, Maine

Bedford, Massachusetts

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What waterway is the most important to you?

"The waterway that is the most important to me is up in Maine, off the coast in Penobscot Bay. There's a channel between two islands called Brackett's Channel, and it's a place I spent a lot of time, and it's amazing morphological situation because the channel is fairly wide but on the western side of it, it shoals up to being only a couple feet deep at low tide, and that's the vast majority of the width of the channel, but on the right, it's a deep channel, and you know, you can pass by there in a boat at any tide at all, so it's this kind of very strange situation where you have to hug the eastern side of the channel very closely in order to not to run aground, even though you'd think you'd go in the center. But, those who go in the center, pay the price."

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Tags: #waterways #bay #boating

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