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Why do I think we're about to get a lecture about lusting after the young uns?

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He needs

 

He might need a special swim suit to swim faster ?.... I guess "it" will slow him down??

 

 

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Guy Fawkes Grand Master

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That's His Keel!

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qK2JPIIxkQQ/Sr_OCYcmUiI/AAAAAAAAXUc/T_cdg4McosY/s400/Bulge.jpg

 

The keel is basically a flat blade sticking down into the water from a sailboat’s bottom. It has two functions: it prevents the boat from being blown sideways by the wind, and it holds the ballast that keeps the boat right-side up. That’s all you really need to know about the keel to enjoy sailing—OK, you have to know how deep it is so you don’t run aground—but in fact the keel is a pretty interesting structure.

 

But boats with “built-down” keels as described above tend to be slow-ish, so most modern sailboats use “fin” keels. These high-performance, low-drag appendages are usually cast in lead and bolted to the flattish bottom of the hull; some fiberglass boats have a stub molded into the bottom and the ballast is bolted to that. Most fin keels look like the wings of fighter jets, while others—those on America’s Cup yachts, for example—resemble abstract sculptures, and you wonder what holds them on.

 

:Dhttp://www.discoverboating.com/resources/article.aspx?id=251

JT Brooklyn Mentor

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The keel is basically a flat blade sticking down into the water from a sailboat’s bottom. It has two functions: it prevents the boat from being blown sideways by the wind, and it holds the ballast that keeps the boat right-side up. That’s all you really need to know about the keel to enjoy sailing—OK, you have to know how deep it is so you don’t run aground—but in fact the keel is a pretty interesting structure.

 

But boats with “built-down” keels as described above tend to be slow-ish, so most modern sailboats use “fin” keels. These high-performance, low-drag appendages are usually cast in lead and bolted to the flattish bottom of the hull; some fiberglass boats have a stub molded into the bottom and the ballast is bolted to that. Most fin keels look like the wings of fighter jets, while others—those on America’s Cup yachts, for example—resemble abstract sculptures, and you wonder what holds them on.

 

:Dhttp://www.discoverboating.com/resources/article.aspx?id=251

 

As long as this Pix POPS UP once a week..This Thread in my Opinion can go on forever! :D:D:D

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There is just something about that blue speedo that keeps me coming back each morning for another look..

Yes me too, I think it is because it is hard to imagine a fabric that can cling so tight in the back and stretch so much in the front. Or maybe it is something else.

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