Re: another plot-defining nautical mishap


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Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on August 01, 2003 at 06:03:55 from 195.93.32.8 user ACB.

In Reply to: Re: another plot-defining nautical mishap posted by andy bolger on July 31, 2003 at 22:37:31:

Ballasting small boats was very much the fashion of the time; it was Uffa Fox who stopped us all doing it, and encouraged us to fit bouyancy tanks, when he developed his fast, light, dinghies in the years just before WW2 and proselytised for the new types of dinghy in the 50's. My first boat, designed and built just after WW2, had a heavy iron ballast keel and six pigs of inside ballast and would have sunk like a stone.

Maybe Swallow had some lead let into her false keel. Piglet (16ft, clinker) sails with a false keel and has no ballast there - she has one pig in the bows and a small engine amidships, maybe 200lbs total, and, as I know from experience, she just floats!


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