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    The ICW’s Magenta Line

    Mar 10, 2020 3 minutes

    The “magenta line” was first added to charts in 1913. It was conceived as a means of aiding commercial navigation along the Intracoastal Waterway up and down the Eastern Seaboard and around the Gulf Coast. To help pilots running through the convoluted mix of waterways, a red line was included on charts to indicate which rivers, creeks, sounds and canals they should follow when transiting the inshore route between the Chesapeake Bay and Florida, and over to Brownsville, Texas.

    It’s important to be aware, though, that the magenta line is much

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