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Thanks very much for your help with this.

I had no idea this would turn out to be such a long and detailed thread! Here are some pics.

If the rust doesn't creep up between steel and epoxy maybe I can accept that the bottom edge of skids will be sacrificial. My main concern is losing the main sheet part of the keel - and then having to fork out for the tricky job for the fabricator having to form the flange at the top which...

Thanks very much. This is very helpful. Please see my reply to Tranona adjacent which also applies to your comment to some extent.

Its a Halcyon 23. It lives most of the year on a trailer and then goes into a drying harbour which is both muddy and rocky, so the bottom edges of all three keels get heavy abrasion. A previous owner welded steel "skids" to the bottom edges of the outermost 2 keels which I believe was to...

The middle keel is cast iron.

Thanks to everyone posting replies to my query. All very interesting and informative. Incidentally, one of the most experienced boat owners in our yacht club tells me that the absence of cathodes on my steel fins is the first thing for me to remedy.........

Thanks.

Thanks for this. I think that potentially the tricky and expensive thing about replacing my fin would be replacing the flange used to fix the fin to the Hull. The geometry of this flat strip of steel is very complex as it has to twist and bend to follow the Hull form. It might be difficult and...

Thanks. Epoxy sounds interesting. But in the construction industry we have seen epoxy coatings for reinforcement steel in concrete fall out of favour quickly because a small nick in the coating draws water in. Or so I was told. The other thing about epoxy is how to get it off if remedial work is...

20 years sounds good :)

The outermost keels on my 23ft triple keel sloop are each approx 3x2 foot in size and made of sheet steel. Experienced owners of the same model of yacht tell me that they tend to corrode and have short lives. I about to renovate one of them and wonder if I should have it galvanized to try to...

Thanks everyone for these very interesting suggestions.

The fibreglass ceiling of the forecabin of my 23 ft sloop is shedding tiny particles like dandruff. Obviously not healthy or desirable for anyone sleeping there. There is no gel coat. Nor is it a plain matt and epoxy that you see. It is a sort of coarse speckled finish. Am I right to assume...

Thanks very much both of you.