Keel lock

[Stu Jackson]

Aw shucks, if you go that 35 degrees, your galley will slide back and kill ya first when the alcohol stove flames your curtains!

Rare is the C22 that sinks because of that. We started doing it, then never bothered anymore, 4 years in both SF Bay and a heavy wind lake.

Simply not an issue.

I enjoyed the five ways a C22 could kill you. You left out the most important one: 6. Trailering it to your launch ramp!

 

[HotChocolate]

That's correct Milton. Typo on my part. Thanks

 

[Milton.Audas]

No worries mate.

 

[StanFM]

No worries mate.

It's fun to hear you "zed" instead of "zero" guys speak! I remember when I first rode the tubes in London and heard, "Mind the gap" coming out of the speakers at the station!

Stan

 

[alabamaranger]

My lock bolt has been removed and fiberglassed over. I hear that this is common practice on these boats.

 

[Bilbo]

.... there would be 150 stories of them sinking this way. Those who know about these boats--- are there really that many incidents of Davy Jones claiming hulls this way?

Stan

Ummm....no.

I've found one example online of a keel slamming into the hull in 7 years of forum "research" but actually the Michigan incident where the keel slammed into the hull while the boat was inverted and in the process of sinking was not necessarily attributed to a faulty keel lock. The report doesn't mention whether the keel bolt was locked or not. So in actuality, I've found no sinking of a C 22 attributed to a person not using the keel lock.

If you suspect that some clunking noise coming from below in a choppy sea is due to the keel then google "Catalina 22 keel clunk" and add shims to the sides of your keel at the hangers.

There is another example of a C22 that went down in North Carolina coastal waters BUT it was swamped in something like 5 ft breaking waves in an area of about 5 ft of water depth.

There have been far more examples of the C 22 swing keel dropping off at anchor, mooring, or dock whether the keel is up or down. This is generally attributed to bad maintenance of the keel hardware. But even that situation is very rare and doesn't mean that the boat hull will sink when this happens.