[Rhodes22-list] Bulb Keels

[Robert Quinn]

All good points.  Remember we could all scare ourselves into not getting out
of bed in the morning if we considered all of the things out there that
could "hurt us."

You make your best judgment, and "go for it."


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Bulb Keels


> 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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