The boat above him was a shallow-draft thing that looked like a pleasure yacht of some sort.

Anderson launched his shallow-draft flats boat and, in a matter of minutes, we were fishing.

There is also a launching ramp for privately owned shallow-draft vessels.

Conover Cove has a small dock which can accommodate shallow-draft vessels.

The launch ramp is unpaved and only suitable for shallow-draft boats.

As the shallow-draft boat passed through the gap in the reef, they struck the waves of the strait.

These minefields were designed to stop all vessels except submarines and shallow-draft surface craft.

The river is navigable by shallow-draft boats for approximately 100 km upstream.

On water the large area of the lower hull, with its small keel, makes it an ideal shallow-draft watercraft.

The next day, all but two of the shallow-draft ships began their ascent of the river toward Paraguay.

On 23 December, the British used a pair of shallow-draft ships to sail up the delta.

They were, by necessity, shallow-draft boats, since the water rarely went deeper than five feet and was often no more than a foot or so.

Partly to redeem his reputation Ross proposed to use a shallow-draft steam ship to break through the ice.

Torpedoes were also useless against shallow-draft barges, which were their most common targets.

A dory is a small, shallow-draft boat.

Only shallow-draft boats - canoes and johnboats - could explore those mysterious byways.

The traumatic experience led to the establishment of inshore flotillas of shallow-draft vessels.

The canal was used by packet and freight boats, which replaced the earlier shallow-draft batteau for commerce.

The longship is characterized as a graceful, long, narrow, light, wooden boat with a shallow-draft hull designed for speed.

A Dome observer sat in a shallow-draft boat, ready to pull out any fools who stumbled into it and to ferry them to the morgue.

The Palk Strait is navigable only by shallow-draft vessels.

Numerous minor waterways navigable by shallow-draft native craft, such as long-tailed boats.

No one was injured and there was no serious damage to the boat, a 118-foot shallow-draft vessel on pontoons.

You could pole a shallow-draft boat in through the reeds, and no one would see you on the boat."

Shallow-draft river patrol boats.