French canals with 5'2 keel

[tomski]

Hello, still looking at options for my big journey abroad, and the yacht I found draws 5'2..is that too deep for the french canals? She is a fin keel also...

 

[MrCramp]

If you look on the liveaboard forum further down the list of forums, you will find this question has been asked loads of times before, and there is loads of info on the French Canals there. Look at Grehan's web site, link is on his posts on that forum.

 

[Grehan]

http://www.french-waterways.com/0-waterways/dimensions.html

 

[alkira]

we travelled from Marseille to Paris via Rhone, Soane, Canal Marne - Saone, Seine and out to the channel in our boat which draws 6foot.....that was late summer and everyone was telling us we would get stuck halfway due to low water levels that year.
The bottom is soft as we found many times ....just gun the engine and plow a furrow