Years ago the family boat was a McWester 25 bilge keeled affair boasting a Volvo 25 HP.

Best bilge keel yacht. One good aspect of doing an atlantic crossing in a bilge keeler is the way the keels have a dampening effect most people who have done this in keelers and long or fin have reported that the motion was much better in a bilge keeler. Grounding on anything other than soft mud or sand can damage an unprotected hull. Looking for ideas of where to explore.

Stub keels offer better protection but are less efficient and prevent level drying out except in soft mud. I had a little experience on dinghys and Contessa 32s. Bilge keels have some major advantages over full keels and fin keels.

Featuring distinctive twin bilge keels the Westerly Nomad 22 Quaker Lady is a classic shoal-draft pocket cruiser. This boat includes the following. Westerly Berwick 1979 ketch rigged bilge keel yacht.

C J international mainsail mizzen and furling Genoa. A fully retracting keel offers shallowest draught. The RM1260 winner of the Family Cruiser category in the European Yacht of the Year awards is one of the few new twin keel boats available.

Photo courtesy of Harry York Steiner. Edinburgh Edinburgh and Lothian. Shes pictured here cruising the light winds of her home waters Lake Pend dOreille in Idaho.

Also take a look at our features on bilge keel and shoal draught fin keeled yachts. Today there are very few manufacturers of bilge keel yachts theres a sense in which they have fallen out of the mainstream fashion even though many of the later designs were efficient. 2 Main with reef points 1 jib 1 storm jib-spacious cabin that sleeps 4 comfortably-swing keel which allows for close approach to shore-4 life jackets-single axle trailer-1 over-sized Danforth anchor with chain-deck pops up to create more head room in cabin.