Translation of "Shallow draft" in German

Inland navigation is practiced to a very limited extent due to shallow draft.

These are the typical Mekong vessels with a shallow draft, here used as tour boats.

Why do I consider shallow draft to be so important?

It has an extremely shallow draft of three meters maximum.

Around 1835, about 80 larger shallow-draft boats were in operation on the Lahn.

Due to silting of the river mouth, the port can only take shallow draft vessels.

A sloop has a shallow draft, allowing it to sail over shoals with no risk.

Hungary procured mobile floating platforms for shallow draft petrol boats to be deployed on the Hungarian – Ukrainian river border Tisza.

Five wide channels (Tiefstack- and Billbrookkanal, Tidekanal, Industriekanal and Moorfleeter Kanal) are used for drainage and are also navigable by ships with shallow draft.

These were box-shaped ships with mast, shallow draft and ramped ends on both sides of the fuselage, which had a payload up to 30t.

So called ramp sections are therefore used in these predominating instances which are unfoldable and collapsible like pontoons, but have a shallow draft.

First flatboats and then shallow-draft steamboats ascended the Minnesota River to Traverse des Sioux and upstream points, where they were met by cart brigades travelling the West Plains Trail.

If the ships are also to navigate inland waters, they must have only a relatively shallow draft and must comply with the regulations for inland navigation, such as those which correspond approximately to the ADNR regulations for navigation on the Rhine River in Europe.

Seagoing ships which have such a shallow draft that they can also navigate the larger inland waterways are known only for the transportation of mixed cargo.

The shallow-draft vessels are allowed to anchor on the island without previous announcement and no fee is paid.

Moreover, thanks to a shallow draft, the Depende IV can easily anchor in the most picturesque spanish bays, which are often inaccessible for larger, deeper draft yachts and, of course, a shallower draft means less fuel consumption.

The length of the arm of the crane and the shallow draft of the boat allow you to operate 20 meters dock structure, so the docking is not necessary inside.

The shallow draft of the Lagoon 44 catamaran design lets you explore where many other boats can't go.

The decision was made to use shallow-draft boats, with doctors, nurses (wearing their traditional distinctive red skirts), and health assistants delivering clinical care and medicines while floating on the slowly receding flood waters.

The shallow draft of the 5.80 m "Kathena Gunilla" allowed Erdmann to go places he could not go with a yacht.

All of the best features of my previous boat were to be incorporated into the new one: an unpainted aluminium hull, collision bulkheads fore and aft, integral centreboard, shallow draft, cutter rig, at least two comfortable all-weather bunks on each tack.