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Traditional sailboats are monohulls, but multi-hull catamarans and trimarans are gaining popularity. Monohull boats generally rely on ballast for stability, and generally are known as displacement hulls. This stabilizing ballast can be on the order of multiple tons of lead, for a 12m (39 Ft.) boat. However, it creates two problems; one, that this gives the monohull a tremendous inertia, making it less maneuverable and reducing its acceleration. Secondly, if the boat ever fills with water, it will sink immediately, without question.
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Most modern monohull boats have fin keels, which are heavy and deep, but short in relation to the hull length. More traditional yachts carried a full keel which is generally half or more of the length of the boat. A recent feature is a winged keel, which is short and shallow, but carries a lot of weight in two "wings" which run sideways from the main part of the keel. Even more recent is the concept of canting keels, designed to move the weight at the bottom of a sailboat to the upwind side, allowing the boat to carry more sails.
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Visser 49er racing team

8 Feb 2008 07:00:03 +0200
The blog of Justin and Ryan Visser, brothers born in South Africa, who have been racing 49er’s competitively since 2005. As their blog states, “This is a blog about our experiences from racing on the 49er Olympic circuit, to training on the waters surrounding Britain. We have plenty of stories to tell, and plenty of time to tell them.”

Sailing Crew Wanted From Gibraltar To St Lucia With Arc 2007.

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:23:05 +0200
Boat details: Island Packet 420 - 44 foot cruising sloop, fully equipped for long range sailing with two onboard chart plotters, genset, solar panels, wind generator, watermaker, SSB, AIS, radar, and all safety equipment required and recommended by the ARC committee. Sailing crew needed.

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Brunswick slashes dividend

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:13:48 GMT

Brunswick Corp. , badly hurt by the ongoing decline in demand for its recreational boats and marine engines, said Wednesday that directors voted to lower the Lake Forest company's annual dividend to 5 cents a ...

Sailing Crew for Florida , Bahamas & Caribbean Cruising

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:53:25 +0200
Looking for 2/3 sailing crew for cruise. This is not a delivery trip so will be stopping at lots of places of interest ,islands etc. Require easygoing, young or young-at-heart crew. Yacht is fitted for extended voyaging/Bluewater cruising with all safety devices.

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Genmar Returns to Making Aluminum Boats

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal reports Genmar Holdings, builder of two brands of 2008 J.D. Powers and Associates Best Boats - Ranger and Four Winns, will return to building aluminum...

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