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Originally Posted by sailingdog
In general, a draft greater than six feet will cause lots of problems. A draft of five feet is good, four-foot-six is better.
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I've read that the ICW draft situation is being allowed to get worse. If that is the case then one may want to factor that in to any yacht acquistion based on how long one will be transiting the ICW. What's acceptable draft right now might not be so in five or ten years.
Apparently a few of the southern states don't have enough commercial traffic to justify enough federal funds to maintain the depth, so they get federal cutbacks, which eventually lead to less commercial traffic and so on and so on. The states in question can't make up the difference in funds based on their own economics. The cruising traffic has nothing to do with the funding.