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Mike Tyler
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Initially Posted - 12/13/2005 :  16:45:06  Show Profile
I am new to your forum. I am interested in the Catalina 25 or 250 and I thought it would be a good idea to ask for opinions from other owners.

Here is my situation. I have been sailing for a number of years and recently I have sold my Hunter 36 and I am looking for a smaller boat. I have a dock at my house but only have about 2 feet of water at low tide. There are several shallow areas between my dock and open water with about the same depth at low tide . My brother's Catalina 22 swing keel can float at the end of my dock even at low tide.

I want a boat that I can single hand, that has a roomy cockpit for day sailing, that I can cruise the ICW in, that can be trailered to the FL Keys or for maintance, and that can sail near shore from Charleston SC to the Hilton Head area. The boat will be in salt water at least 9 months a year. I would like a boat larger than a Catalina 22. My concerns with the wing keel is its ability to go to weather and difficulty getting the boat off sandbars when I go aground with the wing keel especially in sand or mud. I am concerned with the safety of the swing keel off shore, but it seems to other wise be a good for the choice shallow water and sandbar issue as well as trailering. I also suspect that a swing keel may go to weather better than a wing keel.

A traditional fin keel would not let me keep the boat at my house in tne water.

Have any of the members of the forum had to address similar concerns and what has been their experiance with the swing keel vs. wing keel regarding sailing performance, soft and hard groundings, keeping the boat in a tidal creek with relatively shallow water at low tide.

Any information and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Mike
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