[C38] Deep keel - 6'9"

[Marci Brown]

I'm enjoying these responses! If you love a C38, you love every inch of her!

 
Marci J. Brown
PO Box 520549, Winthrop, MA 02152 USA
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From: Don Strong [mailto:drstrong at ucdavis.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 9:18 AM
To: Catalina 38 Listserve
Subject: Re: [C38] Deep keel - 6'9"
 
That deep keel gets all caught up in bull kelp when you arrive at the farm
house on Santa Rosa Island at 2 am in driving rain. We really didn't have to
anchor. Don

On 6/8/11 12:20 AM, Joseph Launie wrote: 
Steve,
    In Southern California we have a different problem with depth, anchoring
in deep water.  In Pelican Cove on Santa Cruz Island for example, if you get
there early ( in the summer that is Thursday) you can anchor inside in only
25 feet. Get there on saturday and you will anchor in the center in 45 to 60
feet.   Years ago when we used to race to Catalina on saturday and arrive at
Two Harbors in the late afternoon, I have anchored in 100 feet of water.
Don't get too much scope. Joe Launie/Macavity

On 6/7/2011 9:03 PM, Steve Smolinske wrote: 
NW does have some issues with depth, but they are not soft bottoms, they are
usually rocks.  The San Juan Islands publish a chart "The twelve most hit
reefs"
 
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From: listserve-bounces at catalina38.org on behalf of david at dlrfilms.com
Sent: Tue 6/7/2011 8:38 AM
To: Catalina 38 Listserve
Subject: Re: [C38] Deep keel - 6'9"
 
 
 
INTEMPERANCE has the deep keel. We bought boat in Georgia I think the deep
keel is part of what was keeping the boat from selling and helped us get a
good deal on her.
 
I grew up on the West Coast. To my west coast way of thinking, if you've
got a bottom reading, you're in the surfzone and losing your boat. Sailing
INTEMPERANCE down the GA/FLA ICW was *extremely* stressful for me. A
couple of things have helped me learn to relax:
 
1) A miss is as good a mile. It takes time to get used to this. But the
water is 8' deep, it might as well be 1000. Sailing over the Little Bahama
Bank, watching the keel knock over conch shells was a head trip!
 
2) If you have a dinghy our boats are really easy to get unstuck. Tie a
halyard off to the dinghy, gun the engine, boat tips, off you go.
 
 
  
I'm guessing that those of you on the west coast don't have any issues
with
shallows. On the east coast however, it seems like my eyes are glued to
the
charts (instead of the water) too much of the time. While I love the way
Checksy handles, her 6'9" draft makes it hard to relax! What percentage of
the C38s were produced this way?  How many of you have the deep keel, and
do
you like them?
 
Marci J. Brown
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Donald R. Strong
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