[Rhodes22-list] Bulb Keels

Michael Meltzer mjm at michaelmeltzer.com
Sun Jan 25 18:51:11 EST 2004


they are a different systems, they use a "canting" keel with hydraulics to shift the keel to windward, great for speed and helps
allot when you have no rail meat, can the bulb far off sure, can keel bolts fail, sure. can a enclose lead keel fall thought the
bottom, sure, all bet are off in a grounding. Can any boat have a hole punched in it, yep. Lost containers are peoples greatest
fear, even for big steel hulled ship, you get into secondary issues like what is in the container and can it go "boom".

MJM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Alm" <salm at mn.rr.com>
To: "Rhodes" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 5:26 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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