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Old 05-05-2006, 07:07 PM
mvsmith mvsmith is offline
 
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Lead keel weight for sale

I have the lead keel weight from my 26' sailboat, which was
destroyed last year. It's on a flat-bed trailer presently, on Whidbey Island.

Roughly 1500lbs, but I'm in the middle of calculating a more accurate
weight from its shape, as offloading it to weigh the trailer alone is
problematic.

Please contact me if you're in the Puget Sound area, are building
a boat, and want to save yourself the trouble of loading the keel...
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Old 05-06-2006, 07:52 PM
Gilbert Gilbert is offline
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It would be helpful to know what kind of boat this keel is from.
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Old 05-08-2006, 06:18 PM
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The keel is from an Excaliber 26', built about 1970.
I'll be taking a photo of it tomorrow, but thought it would be more useful to
convert some measurements into a mathematical model of its shape.
The lead ballast is fiberglassed inside the keel fin, which I thought
might possibly be more useful than extracting it.

I've attached a silhouette of the boat, showing the approximate shape
of the cast lead within it; each grid square is 1'x1'.
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