Ways to repair a keel There about 6 ways to repair your keel bolts.

Catalina 22 keel repair. Here you can see the start of a smile repair. The local dealer and boat yard possessing such hoists can advise you about this and will handle the operation for you. After all the mess with getting the crud off the keel I awoke one morning last week worrying that I had not bought the correct keel for this boat.

471 The Retractable-Keel Model 472 The Retractable-Keel Illustration. It was allowed to sit in the back of a boat bone yard unattended and forgotten. Keel Cable The keel cable is the mysterious device that attaches our heavy iron keel to the even-more-mysterious winch thats bolted below the bridgedeck.

The boat has lived in fresh water or on a trailer its entire life in Texas. They are the following. My brother and I just bought an 81 Catalina 22 that was abandoned.

History of Retractable Keel Design. To receive the keel we built a rolling cradle based on a Rocco Dryfka. Note that it will not be as tight as if the full weight of the keel were pulling on it 24.

One of the first pieces of advice thats often given to new Catalina 22 owners is inspect or replace the keel cable because a. Chip Fords 1974 Catalina 22 Restoration Project Sail 3282. It currently has a cabin half full of ice.

The cast iron keels were sand cast in Mexico and varied substantially in thickness. The Catalina 22 had a 5 foot 500ish pound keel that swings down from a pivot point just behind the mast. I went out over the weekend and looked over a Catalina 22 on a trailer and found a few issues that Im not sure how big a problem Im looking at.