Sentence examples for shallow draft from inspiring English sources

"It's a huge part of profitability, the shallow draft," he says.

The boat has a shallow draft, and a stable deck to cast from.

Balams are slender, double-ended, flat-bottom craft with a shallow draft.

I have a 26' shallow draft sailboat that I dock in Staten Island.

These boats are widely distrubuted, as their shallow draft makes them useful for negotiating swamplands and shallow inlets.

He proposed that ironclad steam-powered warships of shallow draft be built to operate on the rivers.

As an interim measure, three shallow-draft tankers were converted to LSTs.

The hulls are often shallow-draft, and hand or mechanical sorting facilities are fitted on deck.

It is navigable only by special shallow-draft riverboats and then only at high water.

The Russian and Romanian navies used small, shallow-draft monitors as river gunboats.

About 1,620 miles of the river, however, are navigable by shallow-draft steamers.