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Sure, so which keel do they choose? To my eye, their millon dollar keels are shaped like hyper surfaces or Klein bottles, amirite?

No argument fin feels being nore nimble overall. This question is specifically about why full keels would suffer greater leeway.

(I didn't get the image from an article , but OK.)

Yeah, I mean, I guess that's part of the problem. Sailors are notorious for relying on unwritten lore and "sea smarts", so it's...

Thats an excellent analysis, Bal, especially the delta wing concept. But does it answer the primary question? Why would a full keel be...

Full/reef is long, fin is short (longitudinally - i.e. front-to-back). The fin keel is not necessarily deeper than the full/reef keel...

If that's how you want to define "matter", sure. As I said in post #2, "matter" is a word. There is no one single thing in the actual...

Right. That's why I originally proposed it in the older thread before being corrected. Still, is it safe to say that - with some...

I keep going back and forth on this. Apparently, fin keels are better (and preferred) than full keels for racing because they 1] are...

I think we've explored this before in another thread. I offered the rough-n-ready description that - with a few notable exceptions* -...

Popes and cardinals must be natural enemies. Whenever the pope population in the Vatican decreases, the cardinal population skyrockets...

Who would have thought, that more than one member could be mesmerised by pricing alone, into providing such good advertising on this...

So the moral of the story is that you can lead a horse to water but there's a prep cost?

TIL that bringing your boat to your mechanic is like going to your doctor. You take off all your clothes in front of a stranger and they...