[Jeff_H]

That''s Colin''s boat. Last time I saw her she''d just been sold and was sitting down in Beaufort, N.C. In a boat that big, steel really comes into its own but if you built a fiberglass boat as heavily as she is built you would have pretty similar strength.

As to her keel, it is actually bolted on and not integral. Internal ballast had pretty much died out in better built steel boats by that time.

Jeff