fin keel

Only three, or possibly four, were completed with fin keels.

A single lifting fin keel system is being designed.

It has a skeg-mounted rudder and a fin keel.

They have two connected rudders and a narrow steel or iron fin keel with a lead bulb at the end.

Where a yacht is designed with a fin keel, it will normally, also have a skeg-mounted rudder.

The traditional fin keel, pointing straight down from the boat, provides no righting moment when the boat is level.

Most modern monohull boats have fin keels, which are heavy and deep, but short in relation to the hull length.

Because it is shorter than a full-length keel, a fin keel creates less drag.

Invented streamlined bulb and fin keels.

She was relatively shoal-hulled and broad-beamed, without the fin keel or centerboard of one of those yachts.

His later designs were generally performance oriented fin and skeg or fin keel designs.

The Keflin, the lakes first fin keel sailing yacht was built behind the Jones Hotel.

The Nauticat 44 has a long keel and skeg rudder, whereas other boats in the range have fin keels.

Her fin keel struck bottom, and her main topmast lurched and shivered as if about to come down upon our heads.

It was envisaged as a trailable shallow draft performance cruiser with the sea keeping capabilities and safety of a fin keel yacht.

Better performance with faster handling characteristics can be provided by skeg hung rudders on boats with smaller fin keels.

Bilge keels minimise the draft of the vessel compared to a single fin keel thus enabling it to negotiate shallower water.

Although the hull is quite different from the Skerry Cruisers below the water line, which is quite flat with a deep fin keel.

The design combined the classic canoe stern cruiser shape with a fin keel and skeg hung rudder instead of the traditional full keel.

In addition to dinghies he designed several keel boats all loosely based on the same concept as the flying fifteen, with separate fin keel and rudder.

The HEOL 7.4 is also built with a single fin keel, which allows for a comparison between single and twin keels in a state-of-the-art context.

Known as the Newbridge "Corribee 21" in the brochure, she was sold as "a fin keel version of the original centreboard clinker boat".

And while it had a classic appearance, upon closer inspection the carbon-fiber spar, fin keel, and flashing display of electronic devices belied a thoroughly modern creation.

It has been made most commonly in Swing Keel, Fin Keel, and Wing Keel.

Ellis designed a Ljungstrom-type rig modified with a wishbone boom, on a 30 foot modern hull with a plumb bow, fin keel and balanced rudder.