If you buy a vessel designed for ocean crossing it simply restricts
your ability to get to the places closer by where you'd really like to go,
because it takes too long to get to them.

I would suspect that the bilge keel would cause problems in currents and
tides too?

Is it not just far safer to potter about in a bilge keel?

Regards.


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