Canting Keels In Production Yachts

[D'ARTOIS]

I owe Doug Lord an apology when I said that he was wrong and that the canting keel only just the last 3 years excisted.
This is not true.

Baltic seems to use this system considerably longer in their larger boats and so are there another small number of shipyards that use the canting keel in their production boats considerably longer than I actually thought to be true.

I came just back from Duesseldorf Boatshow where I had the time to talk to several yachtbuilders who confirmed that the canting keel is at least 7 years in use in some - larger - production boats and tend to have, or induce no problems.

So I was definately wrong in my earlier statements.

Therefore my apology to Doug Lord!

Apology accepted, D'artois-but it's a lot longer than 7 years....

[zzmeyer]

The best part of a canting keel is when they fall off. Raced against a Schock 40 with for and aft rudder and a canting keel last weekend. When the keel fell off the boat went turttle and we beat the heck out of them - no one was injured.

Too bad about that-been following the gibberish(mostly) about that accident on SA-do you know anything(factual) about what caused the keel failure?
Have you raced them before?
CBTF is good ,fast technology but Shockazulu had the exact same thing happen two or three years ago and ,I think, is the only Schock 40 to have such a failure.

[zzmeyer]

I don't. They were ahead of us and we just saw the results. Talked to one of the crew. Said they didn't hit anything. Boat went over "like a laser in a puff". Wind was gusty, but nothing over about 18knots.