The smallest ship I was ever on drew more than 30'. The big ones did like 80'. And those were small by today's standards, only hauling like 2 or 3 million barrels.
The smallest ship I was ever on drew more than 30'. The big ones did like 80'. And those were small by today's standards, only hauling like 2 or 3 million barrels.
my 14' sailboat draws about 30". I haven't run it aground, but I've drug the daggerboard across the bottom at least 3 times. Twice were sand, once was an oyster bed. Quick action by the first mate probably saved us.
My 15' power bot draws somewhere around 24" to the bottom of the motor skeg. I've stuck it one in a clay bottom, but just the motor, so raising the motor had free. It's manual tilt/trim, so you'd better count the motor depth, not the 8" the hull draws.
As for the Trophy, those are selling around here for about $8k-$9k in excellent condition, but they don't sell fast. Bad rep as a cheap boat (whether or not it's deserved.)
We ran aground in Puerto Rico once. Dumb berkeley for a captain thought he was going to do some fancy maneuvering and slammed the bow right into the side of the channel. The Chief Mate told him "You see that light there, the red one off the port side bow?" That captain, demoted to 3rd mate by the USCG, a few years later ran another ship aground for the same company in Panama. He and the captain on that one "forgot" to mention it, got off 2 days later in the US and a day or two after that, the propeller fell off. New captain and everyone else asking why and the crew mentioned, oh, didn't they tell you we ran aground last week? Those were both small oil tankers, 2-300K bbls, around 600' long, drew maybe 32-36 ft.
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