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boatgt
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Initially Posted - 01/29/2006 :  23:45:32  Show Profile
If you have a fin keel, can you unbolt the fin and bolt on a wing or is it a major ordeal?
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Gene
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/30/2006 :  00:01:19  Show Profile
If the keel stubs are the same for each keel type, I would think that they could be swapped. As for how easy would it be, I haven't a clue.

Sounds like a good question for the factory.
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Bill Holcomb
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Response Posted - 01/30/2006 :  09:29:53  Show Profile
Hi Gene,

The swap will be somewhat easier with a model produced after around '83 or '84....when the keel was converted from steel to lead/fiberglass.

You might want to check out the tech tips section and click on Minnie. Mike Leyden and I swapped his swing keel for the wing some years ago. The parts of that article that discuss the installation of the wing might be applicable to your conversion.

That having been said, it might be about the same price and a whole lot less work to sell the boat with the fin and buy a wing keeler.

Bill Holcomb - C25 Snickerdoodle #4839
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atgep
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Response Posted - 01/30/2006 :  09:33:57  Show Profile
It is assumes the fin will work with the original wing casting. The wing retro offered by Cat will not work as it is designed to replace the swing.

Ditto on the find a wing comment. If you can find a 88 it will have the lower floor(nice) If you find an 89 it will have the lower floor and a better deck/cockpit(even nicer)


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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 :  17:17:19  Show Profile
Hi Atgep,

My favorite configuration is the 1988.

Just a thought,

PW
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 01/31/2006 :  22:09:27  Show Profile
The pictures I've seen of the retro-wing showed that a part of the casting fits up into the swing keel trunk, which makes sense. The fin keel stub has no place for that part of the casting to fit. I agree with the benefits of tracking down an '88-89, which was when the C-25 became too good to be sold at 25' prices.
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boatgt
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Response Posted - 02/01/2006 :  11:24:23  Show Profile
It was just a thought?
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