Or even just of after?
Bob Mann
Lake St. Clair. MI
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From: Joe McCary
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 8:23 PM
Subject: RE: catalina27-talk: Keel Fairing
Chris, do you have any pictures, before and after?
Joe McCary
Aeolus II
West River, MD
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On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A few years ago we, as a class, instituted a rule that any keel fairing had
to be within an 1/8" of the compu keel template that we built for the class.
Only 2 boats have done the fairing since. Last year they were first and second
in Hi Point for the season. They were really good sailors and fast boats to
begin with, but they also value every advantage they can get.
I didn't see Tom's fairing job being done, but when Julian was doing his it
was amazing how much lead he was pulling (planing) off.
To put this in perspective, the amount of lead Julian pulled out of his keel
will be more than tf will be putting into his new i550 build.
But I will say that it is not the lead being taken out that is the
improvement. The shapes of our keels are so random and messy (for a race boat
anyway) that filling in and smoothing out the rough spots will make a
difference. Is is HUGE? Probably not, depending on the condition and original
build of the keel, but it will make a difference.
The biggest I saw visually was a the trailing edge. The template that we use
(honestly don't know which one it is) has a hard "chine" on the leading edge
and just looked faster than the randomly rounded trailing edge the boat used to
have.
I will say that the boys at Muellers who did the job were particularly proud
of turning the "tanks" keel into one that looked like it could be on a "real
racing boat."
I had to go and measure it (the boat was that of the fleet measurer) and just
about everyone in the yard came over to tell me which part they did.
CD
In a message dated 3/16/2008 4:01:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL
PROTECTED] writes:
oh and btw, theirs was defintely the IMPROVED version...really
came out looking a lot different than the Catalina factory keel.
tf
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