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Bahamas Chatter: “Bahamas Cruising with 6 1/2-foot Draft” plus 1 more
Bahamas Cruising with 6 1/2-foot Draft
Posted: 10 Apr 2017 10:44 AM PDT
Thanks to our partner cruisersnet.net for forwarding this good report to us:

We spent 8 weeks sailing our boat in the Bahamas; have a 6 1/2? draft. Did not have a problem. Pay close attention to tides when you plan on entering “skinny water”, study the charts closely and don’t fixate on your chart plotter – learn to read the water (color changes).

Don’t let the shallow water keep you from going. People run their sailboats up and down the ICW with little more that a foot of water under their keel and can’t see the bottom., but they worry about the depths in the Bahamas. You can see the bottom there and it’s gorgeous! Go! Enjoy the trip. Wish I were there right now instead of northern Michigan!

David

West End Indian Rock Channel
Posted: 09 Apr 2017 06:02 AM PDT
We went thru indian cut yesterday westbound at dead low tide. the least that we saw between the first waypoint and the reef was 6′. however, There are 2 low spots before the first way point. One is about 3 miles before the waypoint and was 5.5′. The second , about 1.5 miles before was 5.25′.

john (duetto)