[C38] Deep keel - 6'9"

[Mike]

Mike 
 What's with the shoal and reguular 38's leaving the Chesapeake Bay. 2 shoal draft boats sold up in Annapolis this spring and a deep draft sold down here on the Southern Bay now Jazz is for sale up your way.
Mike Barber



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From: manorcross at gmail.com
To: Catalina 38 Listserve <listserve at catalina38.org>
Sent: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 8:19 am
Subject: Re: [C38] Deep keel - 6'9"



Hi guys, We too have a deep draft and mainly sail the Annapolis area. Luckily most shoals are mud, 
since we had a bad habit of trusting the GPS completely and have stuck it several times. One shoal off the South River has shifted dramatically, allowing us torename itaccording to whoeveris at the helm when we go aground.The last time, my friend Colin was driving, we were double reefed on a beam reach with 30 K true wind at full hull speed, I say " Are we ok on depth." Yes!" in return..and then the chutes deployed for rentry. I of course ranted and raved as we tried motoring, but finallywe hoisted moresail to heel the boat, and off we went.I have a cool video just before we parted the mud if anyone is interested.In general, the deep keel is always in the back of our mind in the shallower parts of the bay, but its great with20K head winds, with a full moon overhead, as we comfortably beat our wayhome. Usually at this time, we are the only boat on the bay, well, except for Rob Cornelson in his Cat38.

MikeNorcross
Escape #318
Annapolis
Jun 8, 2011 at 8:14 AM, <Steve.Ribble at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Marci. 

In Maine we've got about 30 sq ft of soft bottom and the rest is hard, irregular and [to a great extent] unmarked by aids...so a chart is usually close at hand...and of course it's further complicated with 16'+/- tide swings. That said, there's only so many places to sail for day and weekend trips and you quickly learn where to go and where not to go (the other sailing I do is offshore racing throughout the Gulf of Maine, so plenty of water there, but also many different ports). For my two cents about the keel, I wouldn't go any other way than the deep draft. I prefer the performance and maneuverability of the fin over the shoal version (haven't sailed a C-38 shoal, but have done others).

You can also set depth alarms (at whatever depth you want) on your sounder and/or GPS as a back-up warning system so you don't need to use the chart quite so much.

Steve 

Steve Ribble
Tittravate #64

Boothbay Hbr, ME
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