My
rule of thumb when near an inlet has always been to follow the markers, especially the small movable ones. This is based on the premise that these markers are often moved around shoaling areas in inlets and these moves don't necessarily get reflected on the
charts and I might have missed it in the LNM. This failed me for the first time at the New River inlet in NC. Marker 72B on the
ICW has extensive shoaling on the red side and the magenta line makes a radical turn towards the green side. This is the first time in my experience that movable marker has been wrong and the chart has been right. At least we didn't hit too hard.