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**a64pilot** · 10-06-2018, 20:01

Intracoastal waterway, aka the ditch, aka brown water highway.

TJ D · 10-06-2018, 20:14

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Originally Posted by friscoron

Ok I give up. Can someone tell me what ICW is or abbreviation it stands for?

Intra-coastal waterway

markpierce · 10-06-2018, 21:03

Aren't you able to query?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracoastal_Waterway

friscoron · 10-06-2018, 21:20

Thanks. Yes! Good old wikipedia. But it's nice to hear from experienced sailors.

**Jim Cate** · 10-06-2018, 21:41

The ICW is a long ditch that many east coast sailors use to avoid actually sailing out in the ocean. West coasters don't have that option, perhaps to their betterment.

Jim

daletournier · 10-06-2018, 21:51

I spend quite abit if time around a mates trawler, a Selene 48. I would very much like that boat. He crossed the Pacific in it. It's true trawlers cross oceans but I wouldn't do it in an old one unless it had been repowered and had me a "get me home backup system " which his has. This particular one towed another trawler 300nm in the Papua region when it broke down, I was travelling with them.

As an ex motor mechanic I only had a job because mechanical things break. For the time being I'll stick to a sail boat as I like two propulsion systems.