Winged keel information

The winged keel is a sailboat keel layout first fitted on the 12-metre class yacht Australia II, 1983 America's Cup winner. This layout was adopted by...

Australia II design featured a reduced waterline length and a short chord winged keel which gave the boat a significant advantage in manoeuvrability and heeling...

was an Australian yachtsman and marine architect. He is famous for the winged keel design applied to Australia II which, in 1983, became the first non-American...

the bulb into a horizontal foil, called a winged keel. When the bulb protrudes past the leading edge of the keel, it is called a "T-bulb". It offers better...

traditional yachts carried a full keel which is generally half or more of the length of the boat. A recent feature is a winged keel, which is short and shallow...

Metre yachts built with winged keels and all constructed after 1983. Australia II, launched in 1982, was the first wing keeled 12 Metre so is considered...

inflatable escape slide, the surf ski and the wave-piercing catamaran winged keel. Since the earliest days of European settlement, Australia's main industries...

sloop rig, a transom hung rudder and a conventional fin keel, shoal-draft keel or winged keel. It displaces 2,200 lb (998 kg), a PHRF racing average handicap...

Prophecies (1975) is Keel's account of investigating an alleged sighting in and around Point Pleasant, West Virginia of a huge, winged creature termed Mothman...

fin keel. It has two winches for the jibsheets. Sails include a jib, 150% genoa and a spinnaker. Models have been built with folding swing keels, wing keels...

is a 1975 book by John Keel. The book relates Keel's accounts of his investigation into alleged sightings of a large, winged creature known as Mothman...

by the America's Cup yacht designer, Ben Lexcen, who had designed the winged keel for the America's Cup boat, Australia II. The small thruster-sized fin...

sloop rig, a transom-hung rudder, and a fixed fin keel, fixed winged keel, or swing keel. The fin keel model has a displacement of 4,550 lb (2,064 kg) and...

with the New York Yacht club alleging that the winged keel boat was not a legal 12 Meter, and that the keel design itself was the result of Dutch engineers...

Bond and helmed by John Bertrand, Australia II featured an innovative winged keel design developed by Ben Lexcen which helped to make it point higher,...

American trailerable sailboat, that was designed by Steven Schock, with a wing keel designed by Finnish engineer Reijo Salminen and first built in 1987. The...

60 m) with the standard keel, 4.30 ft (1.31 m) with the optional shoal draft keel and 3.83 ft (1.17 m) with the optional wing keel. The boat has a hull speed...

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a fixed fin keel or wing keel. All fin keel models displace 15,000 lb (6,804 kg) and carry 6,000 lb (2,722 kg) of ballast, while wing keel models displace...

fore and aft) keel with a 47,000 lb lead, squished ellipsoid bulb (known as the "geek") on the tip - instead of a classic or winged keel. While, the bow-rudder...

a draft of 6.50 ft (1.98 m) with the standard keel and 4.50 ft (1.37 m) with the optional winged keel. The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar 3GM...

features of the ship are a "gondola", similar to a winged keel, mounted 1.2 m below the hull, and two drop keels (which can be lowered to a maximum of 4m below...

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Tall Mast and Wing Keel model introduced in 1985, with a mast about 2 ft (0.6 m) taller and draft of 3.83 ft (1.17 m) with the wing keel. It displaces...