The Caliber 40 design appeared in 1991 and through its evolution into the 40 LRC remains a very attractive cutter.

Best yacht keels. Nevertheless they are not maintenance free. A full keel as the name implies runs almost the entire length of the boat. Careful preparation and three coats of zinc chromate paint however make for a good economically and manpower effective finite solution.

Their keels are also often slightly closer together at their forward end than aft this toe-in helps to provide a small amount of lift. As a rule lead keels require far less care than iron. Drying out opens up new cruising grounds.

Then wash down with fresh water and dry. Grit blast or needle descale the surface. But you may have to fight our kids and grandkids for it.

Fairly uncommon on yachts destined for bluewater sailing with the exception perhaps of the extremely clever RM Yachts range. At a minimum it must run 50 of the length of the boat. The ones were considering vary in draft between 410 and 56 with the wing keel and 510 and 7 with the deep draft keel.

It has a fully encapsulated elongated fin keel and the ballast to displacement ratio is a very respectable 44-percent. Paint with hydrochloric acid until ALL surface shows a uniform gray colour. Performance isnt bad-in racing both PHRF and IMS show that the Scheel keel is about 5 to 12 seconds per mile slower than a deeper fin on otherwise identical boats.

A fin keel is a long weighted blade attached to the bottom of the hull. 6-75 m and a keel chord of about 22 inches 55-60 cm. Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 372.