RE: Capsize

Eric Johnson (ej@blarg.net)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:50:36 -0700


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> TV and newspapers here in Salt Lake City carried a brief xtory about
> someone capsizing in Gresat Salt Lake and spending the night in the water
> in a life jacket until he was finally rescued. From pictures
> taken from a
> search plane the capsized boat looked like a 19-foot Potter.....but the
> news media never reported any details.....anyone know if it was
> a Potter? >>
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> It was a Catalina 22. They raised sails without lowering keel. Managed to
> sail out of harbor and get knocked down a ways from the dock. Filled with
> water and laid flat. I think there was a drowning... I read it
> in Catalina-
> list@sailnet.com some time ago...
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> LOWER that KEEL !

I thought catalina 22s had fixed ballast in the short keel and only a
lightweight centerboard that retracted?