So Cougar…
How far down the track are you with your IOM design? Making progress?
Muzza
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Don asked
“Is there a “standard” size for keel trunk slots?”.
No such luck<hr height=“1” noshade id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”></font id=“quote”>
There isn’t a “standard” as such, but the SAILSetc keel and mast box is installed on quite a number of boats, including home builds. It is their part number 344D and can be seen by clicking on the “i” icon at http://www.sailsetc.com/pardeck.htm
http://www.sailsetc.com/pardeck/344d.gif
It has a “standard” tongue thickness of 10 mm, and a “standard” tongue profile, rhomboid, 84 mm base (3 1/4") tapering to a 41 mm top (1 5/8") and a height of 93 mm (3 3/4"). If you run with that, your fins become interchangeable with quite a few other boats. Most IOM fins are now thinner than 10 mm, usually around 8 mm, but this isn’t a problem using the provision for 10 mm thickness. SAILSetc insert a couple of 10 mm M2 set screws in the tongue of a thin fin, and adjust them to correctly centre the tongue, and hence the fin, in the slot.
Lester Gilbert
http://www.iomclass.org/
http://www.onemetre.net/
Thanks for the infro on the triple crown boat Cougar. I just finished a “footy” looking for something bigger. Maybe I’ll scale it up and make a “yardie”[:D]