Reply To: Keel protection options

Yes the thought had crossed my mind to fix 3mm stainless plate to the underside of both hulls but l have found without sides to make a shoe the stainless plate has no strength or elasticity, and as l tend to be moored in tidal harbours around the Firth of Forth examples are North Berwick and Inchkeith where rocks/stones can an issue when grounding, l `m hoping that plywood covered with fiberglass would give me a softer grounding on rocks and stones including some elasticity.

On another note l fitted a form of rubber strip to the full length of the keel on a Colvic Atlanta 29 a few years ago with sikaflex, never had any feedback due to the owner passing away, due to this the boat has never been moved or been out the water for years so the rubber and sikaflex may be holding ok, at the time of fitting l was led to believe this was normal practice for types of pleasure boats and yachts could this be an option for me or HTs?.

Garry