Boynton Inlet wreck......

[JupiterSunsation]

Anyone who has every used the inlet would never want to speed through it. It is really not a navigatable inlet, built originally as a drain flush for the Intracoastal. The inlet is on a diagonal so you enter from one side without being able to see the other side (as if someone else was trying to use it as well), it sloshes really bad due to the two seawalls on each side and it has a fixed bridge that is less than 20 feet high. Two 30 foot boats attempting to use it at the same time passing each other would be a white knuckle experience for both captains. Inlet has a wicked sand bar on the ocean side as well................


Two men injured after boat slams into Boynton Inlet seawall

By ELIOT KLEINBERG and DIANNA SMITH

Palm Beach Post Staff Writers

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

One of two men whose boat slammed into a seawall at the Boynton Inlet Tuesday afternoon remains hospitalized with "life threatening" injuries at Delray Medical Center, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said this afternoon.

A second man in the boat was treated for injuries at Bethesda Memorial Hospital and has been released, spokesman Eric Davis said this afternoon.


Authorities have identified the severely injured man as Michael Lee Castleberry, 30, of suburban Delray Beach, and the other man as Christopher R. Cattaneo, also 30, of Boynton Beach.

Witnesses said the boat was speeding through the inlet at Ocean Inlet Park when the boaters apparently lost control. Deputies received the call at 5:30 p.m.

When the U.S. Coast Guard arrived, the boat was ripped in half, said Steve Beasley, officer at the Coast Guard station in Riviera Beach.

Part of the boat sank while the other section drifted into the Atlantic Ocean. Officers could not determine the boat type, but Beasley estimated the boat itself was about 30 feet long.

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[boatme]

any pictures of the inlet ???? sounds scary

[CROWN MAN]

That inlet can be scary when there is traffic. I use to shrip off the sea wall, saw many close calls.