How shallow will a CD22 safley run in.

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Woohoo My CD22 is on the road as we speak! Should arrive Wednesday morning.

Already looking through my old charts.

What is a safe water depth while on the 9.8 Kicker motor slowly picking my way though shallow channels.

My old boat had a 5' keel and I missed out on all the fun spots.

The boat will be fully loaded. Specs say draft ~ 12 inches. Will 3 feet of water
Be deep enough while under way at say 3 knots or so?

I tried the search engine and it seems to return 12 pages of non-relevant topics.

Thanks,
Rich
 
Two feet should be enough. You may have to tilt the kicker up some, just make you keep the cooling water flowing and that you have a soft bottom. At that speed and with a non-rocky bottom, if you do run aground, you can either pole yourself off woth a boat hook, kedge off, wait for high tide or get out and walk.. These are neat boats for skinny water!

My ipad2 doesn't support Flash Player, so I can't see the chart.

Charlie
 
Thanks.

I am so excited. With the old boat if I saw the depth guage even start to hit 9 ft I backed off. I used to look at all the other boats in the gunk holes with envy.

This is going to be such a treat.
 
That depends: How heavily is the boat loaded, how fast are you going, is the boat really stern heavy, are the engines trimmed down or up, etc. If I am heading into water 2' or less I slow way down, put one engine up and raise the other as high as I can and keep water coming into the cooling system. I measured the difference between the hull bottom and the bottom of the skeg and set the shallow depth alarm on the chartplotter to account for that so that the screen depth shown is the depth under the tip of the skeg, not the hull. That way if I am in 18" of water that is the depth below the skeg.
 
I can run (slowly) in about 12-14 inches of water with f-115 raised up on a cc-23 boat weighs over 3500lb and with an 8ft beam and 22.9 ft long
Thats why I love the cd and cc boats in florida shallow draft is a big plus the only down side is you must slow down in a chop gulf of mexico
 
Agree with above. We routinely run the C Dory 22 in about 13" to 14" of water, with motor raised up. As long as you have good cooling water flow, it should be fine.
 
Thanks for the input guys.

It's going to be tough to sleep for the next 2 nights.

Dreaming about all the places I can now access that I was denied for years.
 
I measured the difference between the hull bottom and the bottom of the skeg and set the shallow depth alarm on the chartplotter to account for that so that the screen depth shown is the depth under the tip of the skeg, not the hull.
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Ditto. IIRC I added 18" to the keel offset. Gives me a better clearance and keeps the bp down. :lol:
 
Rich,

I was just looking at your photo album for your hot/cold water setup and came upon this post. We used to have a CD 16 Cruiser, and we could not operate in less then 18 inches of water due to the way the main Suzuki engine sat on the boat. However, if we used our kicker in the shallow water configuration, we could travel with only an inch of water under us. That means 9 or 10 inches of water. We had to do this on several situations to get us out of gunkholes. With respect to your boat, I see you have a kicker, too, so even though it is a bigger boat, I don't see why it would not be any different other then the fact that your boat is what -- 9" draft?

Rich
 
I my 19 in shallow waters on rivers motor tipped up. I try and keep at least 12 inches below the bottom but it has been less with out problems. With the motor tip up and a current I do notice a reduction in control.
The reason I am writing is I always carry a spare prop and also extra blades for my composite prop. I miss judge about once a year not usually because I run out of water but there is a rock or lost anchor etc.

Guy
 
Guy,

In our CD 16, the kicker was at such a shallow angle that the prop was nearly out of the water. The great thing about our arrangement was that the Garelick motor bracket would extend the kicker out from the stern, and allow a very, very shallow angle for the lower unit. This made it less likely, if not unlikely for the prop to hit rocks. In our cruising grounds, gunkholes often have muddy, weedy bottoms, where operating the kicker is essential to getting the boat out of trouble. When I was a rank beginner, I drove our CD 16 at high speed over 1 foot or less of water, thinking I was in the channel, and when we went off of plane, the Suzuki lower unit stuck in the muck like a piling holds a barge in place. I managed to get the Suzuki unstuck, but the only way out of that mess was to operate the kicker in the shallow water mode such that the prop was nearly out of the water. We got out; whew! That was nasty stuff.

Rich
 
jennykatz":1evz4kf3 said:
I can run (slowly) in about 12-14 inches of water with f-115 raised up on a cc-23 boat weighs over 3500lb and with an 8ft beam and 22.9 ft long
Thats why I love the cd and cc boats in florida shallow draft is a big plus the only down side is you must slow down in a chop gulf of mexico
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Yep! And I really don't consider having to slow down a downside, just part of the compromise. I like to explore. You can't do that with a deep draft. Besides, if I am out on the water, slowing down just means I enjoy the day more.
 
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