Fin keel or Full keel...

[lyl]

I'd like to hear a few thoughts based on experience...

[Paul L]

https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...ts-247813.html

[Jim Cate]

Sigh... not again, please, not again!

Jim

[HeinSdL]

Surely the OP shares a light joke?

[cal40john]

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[Eder]

How bout no keel....oops that would be a former fin keel...on with the show this is it!

[lyl]

[Don C L]

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.

[sailorboy1]

I feel the answer is YES. You are better off with a keel on acruising boat.

[JPA Cate]

Somewhere over 150,000 n. mi. including crossing oceans, all fin keel sailing.

Ann

[Sailmonkey]

🤮 🤮 🤢 🤮!!

[Mike OReilly]

The best keel is the one you have.

[boatman61]

I would keel for a rhum.. I'm fin ished.

[thomm225]

The full keel boats are just so nice to look at and are so seaworthy they are hard to resist even though they may not point that well etc the rest outweighs the performance.

I'm at this time checking out a very nice Southern Cross 31 with transom hung rudder.

https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/198...ss-31-3821489/

https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/southern-cross-31

[Mike OReilly]

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