You might want to have a chat with the folks at Mars Metals. They may have a more modern take on the keel design if you want to go deep. Cost vs. someone's old castaway keel is a different animal of course.
John Sent from my iPad > On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:31 PM, niall buckley <niall.j.buck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Harold, > > I'm new to this Group so, don't know the format exactly. > I changed to high tech lines on all my halyards over the past few years. > My perceived advantages are as follows: less weight aloft (considerable, > maybe equivalent to a man on the rail), > much nicer on the hands if you need to handle the line e.g. "jumping" the > halyard and low to zero stretch/creep. Disadvantage is cost. > I have a question for you. I have a C&C 41 1988 Wing Keel; I'd like to find a > deep keel someone might have for sale............... > could you put out the word for me. I haven't figured out how to access the > classified section as yet. > Cheers, > Niall > > >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:27 PM, patricia barkley-higginbottom >> <patrici...@cogeco.ca> wrote: >> Have wire to rope halyards exclusively on my 35-3 1986 . What are the >> disadvantages, since it seems most people , when they have to , change to >> rope of various types. One I can think of is end to ending when there is >> wear, and also less weight aloft, although how much difference that makes on >> a relatively heavy boat I dont know. I club race white sail and will have to >> change fairly soon because of wear at the jammers and beginnings of fraying >> of the wire. I would tend to go with wire to rope again partly because of >> the type of sheaves presently employed so need a strong reason to change. >> While I am on the site, anyone with a 35-3 full keel who races against a >> 35-3 with keel centreboard have any idea of performance comparisons between >> them. My boat is a centre board version. We do well enough, feel that we do >> not point as high as other boats in our PHRF fleet especially in heavier >> air, no other 35-3s in that fleet, but we run well and often overhaul boats >> that may have got to the windward mark before us. >> Harold >> Celtic Spirit >> 35-3 1986 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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