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Hi, I am planning a circumnavigation and am in the process of buying the appropriate boat as large as possible for two to handle. At the moment it looks like an X-562 will fit our needs fine. It can be delivered with a 2.8m draft and a 2.5m draft. I am going North Europe-Canaries, West Indies, Galapagos, Fiji, NZ, Australia, India, Red Sea. Can you give me an indication of the draft which in your opinion allows us to go the most nice places on the route? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hi Mogens: Draft is the toughest of all questions. This really depends on your tolerance for risk, faith in charts, and desire for performance which in itself is a safety factor. We sailed around the world with a draft of 2.3m (7’2″). But when the time came to do our next boat, we dropped her draft to 1.85m (6′) because we wanted to be able to cross river bars in the event of a hurricane to seek protection in the mangrove swamps, and we’d had some very close calls with the first boat where a little less draft would have made a lot of difference. <\/p>\n

Today we have 2.4m (7’9″) draft–but this is on a 23m (78′) boat. In your own case, the extra 0.3m (12″) of draft would really help performance. But there are some areas in Australia, and the Indian Ocean\/Red Sea where the extra draft might be the difference between safely crossing a shoal and running aground. If I had to make the decision myself, I think I’d go for the shallow draft fin–and give up the performance to windward. Steve <\/p>\n

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