Not having my Tuna anymore it's been interesting sitting on the fence watching the E-mails fly. I'm not exactly sure how this keel template thing got started but just to chime in, Sea Whippets keel was also not symmetric and it would have taken a ton of work to make it so. I always thought it was just my boat. Guess not.
I almost wonder if there were a batch of boats where the keel mold was a little funky since this seems to be an issue?? Sea Whippet was 337 (I believe??) are the other boats with wacky keels somewhere around the same hull #'S??
I really enjoyed my brief time sailing and what little racing I did on my Tuna. It seemed that talent, experience, and a little luck was what it took to do well, not the fairest keel, the newest sails, or the most hi tech of rigging. What with almost 40 year old boats, and a couple of brand new ones thrown in there is always going to be a little inequity in the boats.
Have fun and don't knock yourselves out. Everybody loves Tunas.
SteveH
>>>jskinner at ebmud.com 01/30/07 08:15AM >>>
Stephen, that was my experience when I did my keel, back 100 years ago.
I made templates from one side of the keel and tried to match them on
the other side. Never got them to be the same. One side was an arc,
the other was more parabolic. I would have had to grind down the arc to
get them to match. I ended up just doing the best I could. I still do
love those boats.
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From: tuna-bounces at myfleet.org [mailto:tuna-bounces at myfleet.org] On
Behalf Of Stephen Buckingham
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:43 PM
To: Santana 22 fleet mailing list.
Subject: Re: [Santana 22] keel templates
I borrowed some templates from Jeff the previous owner of TGTITW way
back when. My keel was a very different shape and completely
asymmetrical. I spent days building up one side to make it match the
other which it certainly did not when I was done. Closer though.
My rudder sticks out to one side too. (I'm not saying which side for
tactical reasons:)
Love these boats.
Stephen
Tchoup
On Jan 29, 2007, at 12:07 PM, SBates1906 at aol.com wrote:
How much difference does it make?
Shirley
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