--part1_0.932aef67.253f4e02_boundary
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
--part1_0.932aef67.253f4e02_boundary
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Disposition: inline
Return-path: GSTahoe@aol.com
From: GSTahoe@aol.com
Full-name: GSTahoe
Message-ID: <0.e9edc5b.253f4de3@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 12:54:59 EDT
Subject: Re: Potter 19 keel lock down - a sorry tale
To: mcmd@innet.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 41
In a message dated 10/20/99 9:34:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, mcmd@innet.com=
=20
writes:
<< why not take it one
step farther and design, build and install a true swing keel. Lengthing
the keel slot to approximate the cabin headroom dimension would allow a
fully retractable =BC circle keel that would pivot about a bolt at the forw=
ard
end. When down, the keel would be supported laterally by the trunk walls,
so flutter shouldn't be a problem. Properly weighted, such a keel would
allow some degree of retraction for improved downwing performance without
raising the CG to the extent that raising the current dagger board does.
Just a thought,
Mac Davis, Kelpie, WWP19#804, Aripeka, Fl >>
If you where to do the above and then chop a couple of feet off the stern to=
=20
help trailering and a couple of feet off the bow to help putting it in the=20
garage, you'd have converted a P-19 into a P-15! That sounds like a winter=20
project.
Geoff
P-15 Lollipop
N. Lake Tahoe, NV
--part1_0.932aef67.253f4e02_boundary--