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John Harries // Lithium Batteries, Small Boats & More

On the Wind Sailing

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World Sailing - Is the Keel a Problem?

A, the keel moves back and forwards eight inches when you lift it up in the trowbll lift. And i got down on my hands and knees tod looke at the leading edge of the keel. I can find no um indication at all of bad grounding. It looks to me like it just failed from sailing. Maybe he touched the boat, but he didn't touch a heardso that to me. World sailing is tremendously worried about inadequate keel scantlings. A, this abenato at the yard i'm at. It's ten years old. The matrix is totally disconnected from the inside of the hull. But still, going aground at five knots

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