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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Boats, the icing on the cake---twin keels
  • Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 17:20:36 -0700

And of course, twin rudders and diesel engines. When your single engine quits or gets a rope wrapped around the propellor on a rocky lee shore, it can ruin your whole day.



http://www.boatbuilding.com/content/twinkeels/ (twin keel advantages, particularly with twin rudders and twin engines not discussed here)

http://drinian.homestead.com/files/twins.htm (a guy who sails twin keelers, they sail more comfortably, more safely and in areas of considerable tidal change can't be beat---they stand upright on their twin keels at low tide, and as the tide comes in, stay upright all the way.)

http://www.kastenmarine.com/roll_attenuation.htm (twin keel roll-reduction and stellar combination of Lore Riverdale and Naval Architect Arthur Robb in the twin keep Bluebird of Thorne---the last of which is in the U.S. at Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands of Puget Sound---a steel fifty-footer owned by Jeff and Dianne Dyerl)

I like twin rudders for redundancy, and buried in the twin keels two diesels, both for redundancy and the fact that nothing is better than the ability to steer a boat in critical situations by differential throttling of two engines.

http://www.mirage-mfg.com/html/lesson1.html (I also like twin keel sailboats ao you can anchor them at high tide on a sand bottom, and work on the exposed bottom, rudders, propellers at low tide. Anyone sailing in warm waters knows how quickly barnacles collect on a ships bottom---with a twin keel boat you can get them off in a couple hours instead of having to go to a marine repair facility and winch them out, and haul them out on a marine railway to a site where you can prop them up and work on them---a slow and expensive proposition.)




  • [Homestead] Boats, the icing on the cake---twin keels, Tvoivozhd, 09/01/2004

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