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DSK
 
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Default Sailing Question

DSK wrote:
Sailboats have a thingamajig sticking down into the water, like a blade,
which goes easily through the water forwards (or backwards) but resists
moving to the side.




Nav wrote:
It's called a keel.


Not always. Sometimes it is called a centerboard or daggerboard or leeboard or
bilgeboard, or in the case of windsurfers, a skeg.

A 'keel' is also a structural member...


Perhaps you had better visit those elementary web
sites again.


Yeah, maybe so...

BTW when are you going to show everybody all those emails?

Fresh Breezes- Doug King