Capt. Rob wrote:
Hope this helps, seems possible that I should have stuck
with just some pics and not put in any words



Finally, something we can all agree on.


Uhh...................

Leaboards
twin bilge keels

So what is a keelson?
Bob

Bob wrote:
Uhh...................

Leaboards
twin bilge keels


Trying to confuse the poor guy?

Actually when my wife & I first started looking at big
cruising boats, one that got serious interest was a Bolger
ketch with leeboards. While I hesitated, somebody else
bought it.


So what is a keelson?

Interior structural member along the centerline, usually
laid down above the ribs & tied into the floors but
sometimes notched for the ribs & beveled for the garboard.

Here's the best pic I could find on short notice, scroll
about halfway down.
http://www.amespointboatworks.com/Ca...Knockabout.htm

This is a gorgeous boat too.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

DSK wrote:

Trying to confuse the poor guy?

Actually when my wife & I first started looking at big
cruising boats, one that got serious interest was a Bolger
ketch with leeboards. While I hesitated, somebody else
bought it.

Darn. Ive never seen a Bolger design in person. Pertty cool.

I have always lusted over a 45' Texas Scow Scooner. Oh, and the sailing
scow Alma in SF, CA. Now that is the most graceful shoe box I've ever
sceen!

So what is a keelson?

I was hoping for a wise crack on the order of, "a keel made in Sweeden"


Interior structural member along the centerline, usually
laid down above the ribs & tied into the floors but
sometimes notched for the ribs & beveled for the garboard.


Damn, I didnt think anybody over hear knew anything about boats.

Good on mate!

Bob

Bob wrote:
Darn. Ive never seen a Bolger design in person. Pertty cool.


This one was a 45' gaff leeboard clipper-bowed ketch... hull
form similar to the Thames barges, rather boxy (not hard
chine) but with handsomely shaped bow & stern. Very shoal
draft, pivoted masts, not so great as a passagemaker but a
boat that could do anything including the canals. The design
is called 'Bird of Dawning' (blech), I think a half dozen or
so have been built.


I have always lusted over a 45' Texas Scow Scooner. Oh, and the sailing
scow Alma in SF, CA. Now that is the most graceful shoe box I've ever
sceen!


If you pay 5$ extra you can go sailing on the Alma. It's
kind of fun even if you're herded on board with a gaggle of
tourists. It just goes to show how much times change, at one
point these type of boats were as common as pickup trucks.



So what is a keelson?


I was hoping for a wise crack on the order of, "a keel made in Sweeden"


If I'd thought of that, I have said it.

DSK