Posted by Adam Quinan on May 19, 2003 at 20:42:47 from 66.185.85.76 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Death & Glory - Lifeboat or Ships Gig? posted by Clinton Crawford on May 19, 2003 at 18:38:01:
Centreboards and cabins are not incompatible I have seen a number of designs which achieve this, but they do take up cabin space, sometimes a table top is fitted to make use of the casing. However, the drawings of D&G don't show a centreboard case.
A ship's boat as opposed to a life boat would probably have a long but not deep keel. Presumably the D&G was one of these. However, they are not so often double ended as the D&G is shown to be. It would be designed to row rather than sail but larger ones were fitted with sails too.