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://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