And as much as I hated to watch Dennis Conner and crew fail to cover in that
match race, I much later lived in Australia, where in the Sydney Harbour
Maritime Museum resides that wing'ed keel -- and I had cheer them on. Good on
them. Their finacial backer eventually went on to spend time in prison for
fraud, where he took up watercolours.
The winged keel is sound, but a plate of steel isn't the same as lead down
lower, if reducing the heel (and for uncomfortable companions, that's often an
up-or-down vote) is an issue.
I usually pull the tiller to maximize heel, just for the fun of it. Less
efficiency, of course, but the whole experiment seems more exhilarating.
(I'm excluding from this experiment the Lake Superior gigs. Less heel, less
green water over the coamings, that's a "good thing." Martha's right about
that.)
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