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After motoring for about two hours, we finally raised the sails and ran wing-in-wing up the entrance to Back Creek and the Goodwin Thorofare.  By the look of it, this should have been a short cut.  We hugged the one fathom curve around the Poquoson Flats and headed up the river.  Lots of water, well marked channel… all is well.   Well, until we got to the last 300yds of the channel.  Lil’ Henley  draws just under five feet of water, and there wasn’t enough for us at low tide.  Luckily we arrived at dead low tide.  So, we put the anchor out and waited for the tide to come in…