View Poll Results: Full or Fin
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57.69% |
Fin
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42.31% |
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10-04-2021, 22:01
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Join Date: Dec 2020
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Fin keel or Full keel...
I'd like to hear a few thoughts based on experience...
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10-04-2021, 22:16
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#2
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Bellingham
Boat: Outbound 44
Posts: 9,319
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
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10-04-2021, 23:01
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2008
Location: cruising SW Pacific
Boat: Jon Sayer 1-off 46 ft fract rig sloop strip plank in W Red Cedar
Posts: 21,135
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
Sigh... not again, please, not again!
Jim
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11-04-2021, 00:04
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Med
Boat: X442
Posts: 687
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
Surely the OP shares a light joke?
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11-04-2021, 00:21
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#5
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Seattle
Boat: Cal 40 (sold). Still have a Hobie 20
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
Here's a list of this topic's previous threads compiled by the custom google search found in the search button in the cruisersforum menu bar.
https://cse.google.com/cse?siteurl=w...+or+full&sa=Go
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11-04-2021, 00:35
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#6
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 541
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
How bout no keel....oops that would be a former fin keel...on with the show this is it!
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11-04-2021, 13:42
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
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11-04-2021, 13:53
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Channel Islands, CA
Boat: 1962 Columbia 29 MK 1 #37
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
Oh for crying out loud.
Let's just talk about the virtues of boats that have NO keels. A fully loaded dory is amazingly stable. The Polynesian boats all did amazing things sans keels. Or how about scows... or how about this scow with foils... maybe we have been hung up on keels for too long.
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Pythagoras
1962 Columbia 29 MKI #37
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11-04-2021, 14:02
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S/V rubber ducky
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: heading "south"
Boat: Hunter 410
Posts: 20,362
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
I feel the answer is YES. You are better off with a keel on acruising boat.
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11-04-2021, 14:05
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: aboard, cruising in Australia
Boat: Sayer 46' Solent rig sloop
Posts: 28,400
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
Somewhere over 150,000 n. mi. including crossing oceans, all fin keel sailing.
Ann
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11-04-2021, 14:07
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#11
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Houston
Boat: '76 Allied Seawind II, 32'
Posts: 9,626
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
🤮 🤮 🤢 🤮!!
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11-04-2021, 14:29
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Good question
Boat: Rafiki 37
Posts: 14,131
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
The best keel is the one you have.
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11-04-2021, 14:34
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#13
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 30,561
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
I would keel for a rhum.. I'm fin ished.
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11-04-2021, 15:11
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Good question
Boat: Rafiki 37
Posts: 14,131
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Re: Fin keel or Full keel...
I own a true full keel boat, much like the Southern Cross. There are advantages and disadvantages. My personal preference would be a modified fin with decent skeg (and skeg-hung rudder). But you dance with the one what brung ya.
And yes, these boats are beautiful (to my eye ).
https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/rafiki-37
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