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Currents here can be awesome, and frequent dredging is required.
Hughes offers limited transient dockage. The available slips have water hookups, but the only power to be had requires a long power cable stretched up the docks to connections on top of the hill overlooking the piers. The current that sweeps past these docks has to be seen to be believed. Entrance depths run 5 to 6 feet. There are minimum 5-foot soundings dockside.