On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:57:14 -0600, Paul Cassel
wrote:

One of my ambitions that I'll likely never realize is running
the ICW in a very small shoal draft boat with maybe a cuddy cabin. It
may be like that shrimper but add the hard cabin rather than the tarp
boom. I'd also like a very shallow draft like the Mac 26. I can see the
icebox, porta pottie and one burner camping stove.

I did a few parts of the ICW in the big boat but with an almost 6'
draft, I had to stick to the main channel and even then worry about
tides as a few places weren't at clearance depth any more.

As I went, I kept being intrigued by what I was passing but could not
approach.

-paul

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We are now up to 5 round trip transits of the ICW in our GB49 so I can
relate to that. What you need is a dinghy which is capable of getting
up on plane and covering some ground in an hour or two. We've done a
lot of poking around in the back creeks and small towns that way and
it is a lot of fun. Riggging out the dinghy with a small depth
sounder/fish finder is also a useful addition.