Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > Richard, > > > I too believed that it was a sin to let a boat touch the bottom until I > lived on the shore of the Irish Channel for a couple of years. The wide > tidal range means that anchoring areas along the shore dry out and boats > settle on the bottom for half a day. > I've owned a couple of twin keelers, (both British boats,) not because of the huge tides in the Gulf of Mexico, but because the boats had particularly shallow draft. Lake Pontchartrain averages about twelve feet, so it was nice to poke around in a shallow draft boat with little fear of needing a tow. (Almost never . . . ) The Westerly 30 had just a 3 foot draft, but I did manage to run her aground one night on the north shore, and it cost me a bottle of Jack Daniels to get her pulled off. My earlier sloop, a Vivacity 20 drew only about 2 feet. Here's a picture of what bilge keels look like. Makes it easy when you need to paint the bottom too! http://sailboatdata.com/VIEWRECORD.ASP?CLASS_ID=3616 -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA