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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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| It would be helpful to know what kind of boat this keel is from. |
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| Boat type 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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