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If you have a swing keel—which is just a weighted centerboard in reality—then you will blow about a bit, but depending on the draft of your boat and the hull design, it may or may not be a big problem.
I find on my boat, which is a centerboard design, that if I don't have the board at least a third of the way down, the bow tends to blow off pretty easily. This is probably due to the fact that the boat's hulls have a very shallow draft—only 14" or so, and that the boat is rather light for its size—3800 lbs and 28'... and that it has a bit more windage than some boats its size, since it is a trimaran.
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Sailingdog
Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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