[Rhodes22-list] Bulb Keels

[bchilds1]

Those boats are built at the structural limit so to maximize performance.
All the material is thinned to the minimum.  I would not be concerned with a
strength of a typical cursing boat, especially the Rhodes.

Then again there was Chuck Muir on his Freedom 40 that did not make it
across from the Bahamas.  I speculate the free standing masts were driving
through the hull during the violent storm. Nobody knows.

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com>
To: Rhodes <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:26 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Bulb Keels


> Michael,
>
> It happened again.  This month's Cruising World has an article about a
> sailor that was participating in the Around Alone race when his bulb keel
> broke off.  He survived, but the article included pictures of the boat as
it
> floated completely upside down.  Those pictures really give me the
willies!
>
> Slim
>
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