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JimB517
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Response Posted - 07/07/2005 :  11:48:33  Show Profile  Visit JimB517's Homepage
The photo looks cool and its real cheap and easy to make a functional preventer that will prevent gybes.

Get a rope long enough to go from your stanchion base just forward of the mast to the vang attachment on the boom and back.

Tie on a shackle. I use a wichard shackly that can be released under load.

Clip the shackle to the attachment point of the vang.

Run the rope to the stanchion base and then back up.

Tie a rolling-hitch or "taught-line" hitch. This is a knot that will slide up towards the vang to tighten the preventer, but will not slide back down (to loosen) while under load.

Just slide the knot to adjust. When you want to gybe, let main out a little, this loosens the line, pull off the shackle.

I have one of these rigged on both sides, I clip the shackle to the lifelines when not in use, just leave the line looped on deck.

I hate getting hit by the boom! Never again!
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Bruce Baker
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Response Posted - 07/11/2005 :  11:28:02  Show Profile
I used to sail with a guy who said that the optimal heel angle for all boat is 17 degrees. Obviously, the guy was full of crap. Boats differ. But I think he wasn't far wrong for the C-25. I usually sit to leeward until the heel angle is about 20 degrees. The boat points really well with about 20 degrees of heel.

I always tell novices on my boat that with 2000 pounds of steel in the keel, it can't capsize. That may be a slight exaggeration. It sounds like there is, at least, a theoretical possibility of capsizing. But I generally don't start to worry until there is water coming in over the side--which hasn't happened on my C-25 yet.
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JoergK
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Response Posted - 07/11/2005 :  15:29:44  Show Profile
I was wondering wether the swing keel could "collapse" (i.e. swing back) if a larger wave catches me broadside or in the quarter. When I get back in from the Ocean through Manasquan Inlet there always is a quite formidable swell in front of the inlet.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 07/12/2005 :  22:04:55  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by JoergK</i>
<br />I was wondering wether the swing keel could "collapse" (i.e. swing back) if a larger wave catches me broadside or in the quarter. When I get back in from the Ocean through Manasquan Inlet there always is a quite formidable swell in front of the inlet.

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I'd say you'd have to go past 90 degrees--not likely.
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 07/13/2005 :  11:47:51  Show Profile
We sank a swinger C22 when the keel collapsed in a stupendous broach (it wasn't locked down). Wave action of about 3' on the lake had something to do with it. Winds were a base 20+ and we got hit with a 35k gust...
Derek
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