36' Albin Express Trawler draft

[joreyn]

The 36ET has a folding mast. With the mast lowered the Bridge clearance is 11 feet 10 inches, and with the mast up, it is a little over 18 feet. The draft is right around 5 feet.

[Mariner]

The draft is 4'9" with the single, and under 4' with the twins. I've personally observed the boat's attitude in the water shift as much as 1' depending on loading. I never take the boat in water less than 10' deep. You never know when there will be a rock, sunken boat, or sea trash of some sort down there that could pop up at any moment.

[Albinflorida]

The draft is 4'9" with the single, and under 4' with the twins. I've personally observed the boat's attitude in the water shift as much as 1' depending on loading. I never take the boat in water less than 10' deep. You never know when there will be a rock, sunken boat, or sea trash of some sort down there that could pop up at any moment.

WOW If you never took the boat in less than 10' here in Florida, you couldn't leave the dock! Must be a wonderfull thing out in Washington. Deep water and incredible scenery. Oh well. I guess we will just have to put up with the heat.

[Mariner]

Yeah, I get nervous whenever the depth gets below about 50' unless I am intimately familiar with the area. We have boulders that are often in excess of 10' in diameter, and rocky reefs that can pop up hundreds of feet, and, of course, are always JUST below the surface at low tide. Everything's charted and marked very well, but still, when the consequence of a grounding is almost surely a sinking, you don't mess around with shallow water.

I'm also extra careful because the boat is actually owned by my parents. It would be a tough thing to say to my folks, "Sorry dad, I was cruising at 10 knots through 20' of water and sank your quarter-million dollar boat."