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• keel/centerboard?
  • No expert, but ...
    • It depends on the boat and the conditions.
  • Unlike a daggerboard on a dinghy, it's not an all or nothing thing with a keel/centerboard.
    • Interesting analogy. But what he said.
      • I forget the boatyard advantage.
  • A keel/centerboard sailboat is the perfect design.
    • a differenht perspective
      • I think on mechanical, just like a rudder, you should build a centerboard like you mean it.
        • to nasty to risk?
          • That was dire, sorry. On my boat, the 300lb plus bronze board would just stay down.
            • Listing info
              • Nice boat. I found this drawing on line.
  • Our CB Tartan 40 ...
    • Another photo ...
      • Nice write up, John. On our Tartan 37
        • That's a trick I've never tried(backing board down), thanks Tom
          • Just don't run agound while backing with board down
            • If my boat went 10 feet straight backwards, it will be a first.
              • Have to start every season backing the length of the Mattapoisett town ramp.
        • Interesting Tom ... I read that somewhere a week or so ago ...
          • Will have to try that as well. Gene Barnes said, don't use it as a depth sounder.
            • That's the problem....never seems to be enough depth were you need good reverse control so the board has to stay up
    • That's an interesting read, thanks John.
      • Thanks Tom, good suggestion ...
      • You're right about fin and foil hype
        • In that context, 60 feet/hr is important.
          • Tom, in displacement monohulls you're right
          • Maybe not in the boats we sail
            • Not just comfort and cost
  • Not a big thing