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Bilge keel - Wikipedia
A bilge keel is a nautical device used to reduce a ship's tendency to roll. Bilge keels are employed in pairs, one for each side of the ship.
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Choosing a yacht: bilge keels vs fin keels - boats.com
It is commonly known that bilge keel boats offer the benefits of shallow draught and the ability to dry out upright over low water.
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bilge keel vs fin or full keel for mediterranean : r/sailing - Reddit
Generally bilge keel boats have less righting moment than a deeper keel, so they heel more for the same amount of power. That means you have to ...
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bilge-keel
bilge-keel (ˈbɪldʒ-kiːl) See quot. 1850.c 1850 Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 97 Bilge-Keels, the pieces of timber fastened under the bilge of boats or other vessels, to keep them upright when on shore, or to prevent them falling to leeward when sailing. 1884 E. Fishbourne in Pall Mall G. 23 Sept. 2/2 A larg...
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Bilge keel | shipbuilding - Britannica
A “bilge keel” is one of a pair of longitudinal plates that, like fins, project from the sides of a ship or boat and run parallel to the centre keel.
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Bilge Keel - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Bilge keels are planes or fins fitted externally at the turn of the bilge. Their length usually extends over roughly one-third of the ship's length.
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Bilge keel
A bilge keel is a nautical device used to reduce a ship's tendency to roll. Bilge keels are employed in pairs (one for each side of the ship). A ship may have more than one bilge keel per side, but this is rare. Bilge keels increase hydrodynamic resistance to rolling, making the ship roll less. Bilg...
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To bilge keel or not to. - YBW Forum
If you need a shallow mooring or wish to dry out, bilge keels are a good option for anyone not wanting lifting or swing keel. There have been a ...
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Ep-11 What is Bilge Keel of a Ship? |Maritime Shorts ... - Facebook
Bilge keel is a plate that is fitted to reduce the ship's tendency to roll. They are plates projecting from the turn of the bilge and extending over the middle ...
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Bilge Keels - Duckworks Magazine
For power boats bilge keels can do more than just protect the prop or keep the boat upright- they also help dampen roll. The boat in photos 7 and 8 has bilge ...
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Bilge Keels - George Buehler Yacht Design
The following is my reply to a guy who is having a new 462 DUCK built and asked me about fins, or “bilge keels,”as they're called, to dampen roll.
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bilge
▪ I. bilge, n. (bɪldʒ) Also 7–8 bildge, billage. [Prob. a corruption of bulge, ad. OF. boulge = mod.F. bouge, shown not only by the occurrence of bulge and bulch as synonyms of bilge, but also by the fact that bouge in F. still means ‘bilge’ both with reference to a cask and to a ship. Billage must ...
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Shane Acton
Without any sailing experience, he departed in a used 18' 4" bilge-keel sailing boat for which he paid the modest sum of £400.
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drift
▪ I. drift, n. (drɪft) [Early ME. drift (not recorded in OE.) corresp. to OFris. drift (in ur-drift), MDu., Du. drift, MHG. trift, G. trift passage for cattle, drove, ON. drift snow-drift, (Sw., Da. drift); verbal abstract from dr{iacu}fan to drive.] I. The action of driving, etc. 1. a. The act of d...
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keel
▪ I. keel, n.1 (kiːl) Forms: 4–6 kele, (4 kelle, 5 keole, 6 kyele, kile), 6–7 keele, Sc. keill, 7– keel. [prob. a. ON. kjǫl-r (Da. kj{obar}l, Sw. köl):—*kelu-z; not connected with Du. and G. kiel (keel n.2). F. quille, in a Rouen document of 1382 (Hartz.-Darm.) was prob. also from ON.; Sp. quilla, I...
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