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Sometimes it seems the lobster buoys in our local area are thick enough to walk across, and it requires constant vigilance and effort to avoid them. The fin keel/spade rudder of our HR-28 seem custom designed to snare them too. When we do inevitably catch one (avg 2-3 per season) it's usually a lot of work to untangle it, and in some conditions can be dangerous as well.
As a result, I've given some thought to how to even the odds a bit, short of trading it for a full keel boat, of course. But since I'm still a bit of a noob to the whole boating thing, and I've not seen anything else written about this, I'm guessing these are probably not very good ideas even though it seems simple enough.
Method 1: Attach some type of rigid guard to the keel, perhaps made of fiberglass, which would help a line slide past the rudder.
Method 2: Attach a cable of some type to the bottom of both the keel and rudder. On the rudder a swivel of some sort would be used, attached to the pivot point.
Any thoughts, criticisms, insults or alternatives will be gladly accepted.
As a result, I've given some thought to how to even the odds a bit, short of trading it for a full keel boat, of course. But since I'm still a bit of a noob to the whole boating thing, and I've not seen anything else written about this, I'm guessing these are probably not very good ideas even though it seems simple enough.
Method 1: Attach some type of rigid guard to the keel, perhaps made of fiberglass, which would help a line slide past the rudder.

Method 2: Attach a cable of some type to the bottom of both the keel and rudder. On the rudder a swivel of some sort would be used, attached to the pivot point.

Any thoughts, criticisms, insults or alternatives will be gladly accepted.