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Paul Cassel

wrote:
"Paul Cassel" wrote
.... Time after time I was frustrated at how often interesting places
were closed to me.

I don't know who to attribute this to, but here's one of my favorite
quotes: "Shoal draft allows one to run aground in much more
interesting places."

I said it. Let me give you an example. Along the inside, there are these
little breaks in the marshes which lead to a sort of lagoon. The
entrance, I was told, tended to be shallower than the lagoon. I often
was maybe 30-50 cm too deep to get into the lagoon where I'd have been ok.

Also while the clearance in the Intercoastal is supposed to be 6', it
isn't. There were sections where I had to await high tide to pass over
and other sections where I needed to await low tide to pass under.

Specifically, while the clearance for the Dismal Swamp route is 6',
sunken logs, etc. made that route impassible to me and I'd wanted to see
it.

Over in the Bahamas, it's not guessing. There are many good places to
anchor which are marked as being less than the 6' I needed. Over in the
Pacific, as Edgar posted about the Baltic, the issue is more finding a
place where you have enough rode to anchor. Several times I anchored
with a rode maybe 1.5x the depth but so much was out, that it sufficed.

-paul