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New Zealand cyclone 1994 Queens Birthday weekend

Keels are there with a mission; target sea floor.
Regardless of whether bolt on or encapsulated.

1 big safety issue many miss is bouyancy. Bolt ons tend to slap as bouyancy breaks free-fall whilst keel try's to break free. Construction held up in video.
Encapsulated try to break free too!!! Being attached via sheer lines of a graceful hull thus when they get a stalled drop amongst the steep ones they take entire vessel with them.

We've been on a pretty rough ride similar weather to video 1988 Southern Ocean give take a year. That bought a tapered keel hull under a couple of times yet if I was on my long keel race boat she'd be sunk. Thus why men insist on quality hatches and seals. Extremely important.

Keeping speed up most important though. Another bonus of a spade is ability to dig in and recover. Twin spades looking nice but I really don't know, we've only ever had 1 and been happy with them. But when moving along and breaker rolls a fall, vessel lands on freeboard, keel gets lifted, calling a spade a spade, such rudder digs in and returns vessel to pace quickly.
Taper versus long. Man sheer versus sheer lines of hull.

 

[Beyond some weather]

I meant this video. New Zealand 1994 Queens Birthday Weekend cyclone.

Researching square rigs for personal self. To maybe fit Max size 90 sqft 1080 sqft array. Replacing halyards with Hal brace to raise and halyards lateral creating yaw sails for none obstruction turbine side sail flow either tack plus square fore running. Stay sails thus a permanent ability to create pressure until strength of wind lifts point of true higher and higher.
Then park him up in harbour and enjoy a slow boat on 3 rules of surviving storms.

#1 know vessel
#2 know whether
#3 stay calm and love Lee

🤣 Wollongong that be modern or old??
Keelson 🍻
Mindful wind or a forced partial set?
Once we're sailors

 

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Jeff et al,

Thanks for the replies, I was not really looking for a NZ specific answer but attempting to point out what struck me as a rather knee jerk reaction. A rule to fix a poorly defined problem.

AND that if this is a legitimate trend, then manufacturers will need to make some serious changes to their designs. Like that 64 Jenneau.

Ax for cutting hull, that would work well on my steel boat. LOL

I had HEARD that initially NZ attempted to apply these rules on foreign nationals but that was found to be against international conventions, foreign nationals need to meet the rules of their home port country, not every country they visit. But that may have changed as you are the second person to imply it is now universal.

 

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Kiwis are beautiful.
Brave are coast guard.

Modern biases..
Love of digging in to get her going is beautiful but being a man sheer such tires us mere men and if without speed to course a smooth river in a storm many opt towards hull sheer lines aka long keels. Yet they being encapsulated will simply sink when keel breaks free because keel is yacht.

I'm with Kiwis with regards to assisting education which is primary safety for any of us.
I know you are too!

I don't speak European otherwise I'd be wondering if they could brace a couple of keels instead. Bilge keel an enormous effort offshore providing a vertical hammer as well as aligned Lee flow Lee keel. They're already digging with 2 spades.
Should I ring Ben and Jean in eu? Nah.. I'd waste their time. Ben to fat for me berth. No offence intended, maybe he will fall to sleep some day 😅
Jean a great bloke too. Maybe is hang out an extra 3 years and enjoy coastal with stay aware if dare venture outside. Automatic man a nice steer yet how much can he handle before it is required to brace helm with self?
Slower bias towards older girls. Well, they like to get wet so maybe their hatch seals should be regularly inspected. Yet they do brace for helm and run like demons when mountains are high.

Steelie. You champion. More maintenance with steel says whom? Ignorance? Ongoing maybe.

Welcome to earths Kingdom.
Yo ho Jean, bilging from keelson 🍻 on thoughts yet. Fast, traction, man sheer helm, shallow draft, beach able for inspections remote yet clear of sand crabs infecting our seacocks.
Keelson..
🍻
Please don't get sucked in to attraction of depression eye. She's simply spinning a yarn

 

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Expanding on future keel drop off's
😅

If they went bilge keel for traction ratios.
Like weather , whether we know or knot s a tiring subject.

Eagles evolved wing tips for agility + speed
Boeing shortened their wings on airbuses following suit.
Bilge keel Lee traction is up up and away from sea bed ... or beach if grounded.


Wondering..
Hmm
Don't buy that the wing tip will fall off