33-2 pointing

I was wondering which keel is on your boats. A member of our club cannot point and her boat has the shoal draft keel. It could be tuning or maybe the keel? John B Cal 227

John, I also have a shoal. draft. I know this reduces pointing ability but sailing on the Chesapeake Bay a shoal draft boat is beneficial . From: "John b" <je… [at] gmail.com> To: "Cal Boats" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 2:28:35 PM Subject: [Cal_Boats] 33-2 pointing I was wondering which keel is on your boats. A member of our club cannot point and her boat has the shoal draft keel. It could be tuning or maybe the keel? John B Cal 227

On 9/27/2013 3:35 PM, je… [at] comcast.net wrote: > > > John, I also have a shoal. draft. I know this reduces pointing > ability but sailing on the Chesapeake Bay a shoal draft boat is > beneficial . My other boat is a keel-centerboarder. She draws about 2-1/2 feet with the board up. Her home waters are Lake Huron's Saginaw Bay on the east side of Michigan, a very large and shallow bay. It's Michigan's equivalent of Chesapeake Bay, in depth and also in wave form. During a period of very high lake levels in the late '80s and early '90s, my boat could float anywhere a chart showed water. I never pressed my luck on that, but I also did not replace the depth sounder after it died, until the levels dropped a lot. Now we're in an extended low-water period. We set a new historical low-water record in January. Great Lakes levels are always controversial. When they are too high, there are allegations of government conspiracies to impede outflow. When levels are too low, there are allegations of government conspiracies to allow too much water to escape, or to fail to correct purported excessive dredging in the St. Clair River, which drains Lake Huron into the lower lakes. Meanwhile, nature gives us more or less precipitation and more or less evaporation. The latter is especially significant in winters without ice cover (as global temps rise), because dry air over the water surface just sucks up moisture. Lack of ice cover is also important for ice boating, which is much like Oracle on a hard surface. Why is Chris going on and on about such stuff? Because his pretty Cal 20 #1220, /Martha C/, is on the hard for the winter season, as of yesterday at 1:00 pm. It was, of course, a warm and sunny day, with sailboats skippered by retired folks out there on Grand Traverse Bay. And today is even nicer. But at least I wasn't hauling the boat in an icy gale. Chris Campbell