keel locking bolt

[timebandit]

Now there there is another reason to lock the keel.

When you go up a wave the keel position moves to the rear and when you come down the boat will bash aginst the keel.

I dont even want to think what it does to the ballance of the boat.

Yes. yes I know the keel does not move but the boat does.:cussing:

.....the age old question. Here on the great lakes.........I always lock. Big waves make big damage to the trunk when that keel swings fore and aft(that nitwitted powerboater screaming by you out of the harbor entrance). Skinny water? depends on the sea state. The couple times I've grounded in the North Channel, waves were choppy, wind was high(ie: keel locked) uncharted, low water level, BIG rocks.......youch.....where did I stow that damn punch?

 

[nemosuit]

Now there there is another reason to lock the keel.

When you go up a wave the keel position moves to the rear and when you come down the boat will bash aginst the keel.

I dont even want to think what it does to the ballance of the boat.

Yes. yes I know the keel does not move but the boat does.:cussing:

This conversation is very important to me.

Inside the Hilo breakwater, it's very calm. But with the prevailing currents being what they are, while we sometimes get flat seas outside the breakwater, more often than not that area is what the locals call "the washing machine."

I mean, on a mild day, you're going up and down six feet at a bounce. And it's known to get a lot nastier than that when the weather turns foul, which it often does unexpectedly.

(We have a saying: "Don't like the weather in Hilo? Wait twenty minutes!")

No foolin' The Hilo side of the island is known to be a treacherous piece of ocean. (Another reason I'm glad we have a trailerable sailboat!)

That said, I'm pretty sure I don't want 500 lbs of cast iron bouncing around loose inside a fiberglass keel trunk.

Me gonna bolt'em, brah!

VBR,

Pat