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BCain
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Initially Posted - 12/29/2001 :  19:19:22  Show Profile
Ok, how do ya'll live with the hum of the Keel cable? I know it will stop if I slack the cable, but, I understand that allowing the keel to rest against the keel trunk will cause damage. Right or wrong?
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Gary B.
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Response Posted - 12/30/2001 :  00:52:25  Show Profile
For 6 years, my good friends owned and cared for my 1978 Catalina Swing. They renamed her "Fine Whine" and changed the colors/canvas to burgundy. The hum makes me know we're starting to "cook" a bit. I hated the name, so when I bought her back in 1998,
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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 12/30/2001 :  12:52:12  Show Profile
The keel trunk is designed to have the keel resting against it. I slack the cable about a turn, maybe a turn and a half. If it begins to sing, I loose it until it stops.

It would be greater damage for the cable to break and have the keel slam against
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Summer Breeze
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Response Posted - 01/04/2002 :  17:05:54  Show Profile
I was wondering myself if the trunk is built to stop the keel. I do not think so. The fiberglass is only 3/8" thick there. I just bought this boat this past February. When I sailed it this past summer the bilge kept getting water into it. I found that it
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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 01/05/2002 :  10:19:41  Show Profile
Well, I guess that's the difference between running aground on a rock and running aground in mud. Here, the boat just comes to a stop.

You're right that the keel trunk is not designed to resist a slamming 1500 pound keel. The flip side of keeping the
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