What is the bridge clearance on the Intercoastal Waterway?

65 feet
A: The fixed bridges over the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway are supposed to have a vertical clearance of 65 feet, but there’s one notable exception and you can’t always rely on having that much clearance with the rest.

What is the average depth of the ICW?

Federally maintained, the authorized depth of the 1,100-mile ICW is between 10 and 12 feet. However, shoaling and silting have reduced controlling depths in some spots to as little as five feet.

How deep is the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida?

12-foot-deep
The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway serves ports for more than 1,100 miles (1,800 km) between Brownsville, Texas, and Apalachee Bay, Fla. It lies mainly behind barrier beaches and provides a 150-foot-wide, 12-foot-deep channel.

Can you sail down the ICW?

It’s a rather narrow river, or canal, that’s protected from the ocean. The best boats to travel down the ICW are motorboats or sailboats with a mast no higher than 64′ or a keel not too much deeper than 5′.

What is the minimum bridge clearance for the ICW?

56 feet
The minimum overhead clearance of fixed bridges over the Intracoastal Waterway is 56 feet at the Julia Tuttle Causeway at Miami, Mile 1087.1.

What is the lowest bridge height on the ICW?

The stated minimum vertical clearance of fixed bridges for the Atlantic ICW is 65 feet, except for the JuliaTuttleBridge in the Miami area, which is 56 feet. (The passage offshore from Port Everglades Inlet at Fort Lauderdale to Government Cut in Miami allows you to avoid that bridge.)

What is the average speed on the ICW?

During our transits we use a 50 mile per day average. Of course that’s only an average – some days are 70 or 80 miles and others might only be 5 miles. The ICW is best done at a leisurely pace with a general plan that is open to change.

How fast can you go on the ICW?

The Intracoastal Waterway extends almost the entire east coast of the United States and boaters treat it like I-95. The difference is the speed limit for I-95 is 70 miles per hour while the Intracoastal’s maximum speed is 25, and boats don’t have brakes.

Which way does the Intracoastal Waterway flow?

The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a 3,000-mile (4,800 km) inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Massachusetts southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following the Gulf Coast to Brownsville, Texas.

What is Foretriangle height?

IG is defined as the height of the foretriangle and is the vertical distance from the mast datum point (at the sheerline at the mast) to the forestay attachment to the mast. Similar to IG, ISP is the spinnaker halyard height and is the maximum height that the head of the spinnaker or headsail set flying can be hoisted.