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Old 09-18-2023, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by twoplanekid View Post
I would think that the sailboat might have a wing keel as my Catalina 250 does. My wife took this picture today of another boater in trouble. He is outside pushing his boat off of the bottom to free it. I can't leave the slip as my keel will scrape the bottom even in the channel until the tide height is 2 feet above low tide.
We had an S-2 in Ohio with a similar-looking keel. The weight in the bottom makes it more stable.