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The old disposable keel chestnut is getting another airing (several airings in fact) in the other place at the moment. I've obviously made my keel choice but have no particular axe to grind.

AFAIK the first grp boat was simply a copy of a wooden one so who first came up with the idea of bolting a keel on the outside of a grp yacht?

Obviously there have long been dagger, centre and lee-boards but which was the first grp yacht with no internal ballast and a keel bolted on?

moulded cast iron keels have been around since at least 1943
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little boy blue wrote:moulded cast iron keels have been around since at least 1943
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Did you mean to post a link?

Silkie wrote:AFAIK the first boat was a wooden one so who first came up with the idea of bolting a keel on the outside of a yacht?

Obviously there have long been dagger, centre and lee-boards but which was the first yacht with no internal ballast and a keel bolted on?

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Silkie wrote:which was the first grp yacht with no internal ballast and a keel bolted on?

Is anyone goiing to attempt to answer the effin' question?

the link i was trying to post related to a wooden yacht designed in 1943 and built in 1946.it had a cast iron moulded keel so the idea of fitting same to a grp hull would not appear to have have been original but i`m afraid i cannot help re the first grp hull to laid up in such manner - sorry.

Is it a quiz question?

claymore wrote:Is it a quiz question?

Do you know the answer?