Ideal trailer-sailor for the Broads?

[Polly]

Yes Brilliant also has a long keel. They are supposed to snake along rather than twirl like dinghies can.

[ChrisB]

I would not call a Hunter fleet boat long keeled. Now I would a Nordic Folkboat.

 

[teadaemon]

Mmm, the Hunter Fleet have long keels and there are few yachts on the Broads that are more manoeuvrable.

The Hunter fleet most definitely have fin keels, albeit not the kind of deep, NACA foil that modern production seagoing yachts tend to sport.

[JennyMorgan]

The fin keel on many Broads yachts will allow the helmsman to work along a tidal river far better than any modern fin keel but then I can't raise a fixed keel for when I want to pull my boat out for maintenance or chuck her on a trailer. Now, a Nordic Folkboat, that cabin height is only good for trolls and gnomes! Lovely to sail but how tall Nordic types could live aboard I don't know!  Not sure that two up, two down was even feasible!

[ChrisB]

For Jenny Morgan's memory lane

[JennyMorgan]

I spent many a happy hour ringing bells in that church, and many more in the spit & sawdust of the Anchor Bleu.

[ChrisB]

For anyone interested my copy of November/December Water Craft arrived this morning and there is another article on Kite (Kate the Kite Demons demonstrator). It is not an easy mag to find but if you google them it is available, with back issues to order. I have seen it occasionally in Lathams.