Re: Coming Out
Mac Davis (cgula@innet.com)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:09:42 -0500
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Welcome, Kellan:
>You asked: Also, since the Great Salt Lake is a very shallow body of water
with
>lots of sandbars, etc. I’m assuming that the keel will pop up if I run
>aground. Is this correct? And if so, is that a good thing?
>
>From personal experience in shallow water, I can say that if you hit a
smoothly sloping sandbar, the keel will be pushed up until it gets cocked in
the trunk and then it will stick. The boat will stop fairly rapidly, but
not alarmingly so. You probably won't even spill your beer.
If you hit a relatively vertical slope, the keel will remain down, and the
boat will stop with alarming rapidity ( You will spill your beer). After
such a close encounter, be sure to carefully inspect the interior of the
trunk, as the keel will be forced backward into the aft wall of the trunk
and the sharp edge may do some cosmetic (or worse) damage.
>
In either case, before you pull up the keel, let your sheets fly free to
prevent capsize. Also, head the boat back to deep water lest you be driven
farther aground. In warm Florida waters, I just jump off, push the boat
off, and crawl back aboard. How cold is the Great Salt Lake anyway?
Hope this helps,
Mac Davis, Kelpie, WWP19#804, Aripeka, Fl >