Bavaria 39 loses keel

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As an accountant ........... we queried the layups ............one of Ed Dubois early efforts-

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Nothing personal but I always found in the business that my accountants were not very good at calculating the cost of anything but very good (or so they claimed) at everyone elses job.

Mind you, that's why British industry prospers - we have many more accountants and lawyers, pro rata, than the Japs and the Germans. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
This is FANTASTIC.I OWN the very first Fulmar (It says on the transom) and it has a plaque that distinctly says L1 .
The bottom floors were bog standard when I got it ,ie, poorly engineered,and I did a complete reinforcement job in the way of the keel .There is no movement at all now.
Then again, maybe they went to the trouble of moulding another nº1 hull...
 
Do we conclude that they are so well engineered they do not really need the keel, or are so badly built that no one thinks to mention it?

Fortunately I am unlikely to have the funds to have considered buying one, but the proverbial barge pole comes to mind, and yes I had sailed on one when on a sailing course.
 
Imagine what this sort of publicity does for the residual value! Second hand prices could plummet and a 39 footer could be yours for the price of a Topper -- although the Topper has a bungee to keep the keel in.
 
Not sure what happened to her then - Westerleys committed suicide shortly after that - by buying all their factories just as the recession started - it was a real waste of a wonderful company.
 
They say it is Plexus MA310 and specially designed for the job with a shear strength itself of 20-25 Mpa and stronger than sikaflex. There is a comment that the "voids" might be where it has ripped away and not a bad application.
 
Do you think anyone actually checked it had a keel before they launched it??!
Of course Bavaria would say, "well, you must have bashed it off on a big rock!"
Its when they may say, "Hey, luckily we've found this spare one, just lying around in the factory!! How about that?"
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Deeply sceptical about this.

Does not sound reasonable.

A delivery crew would presumably know what they were doing.

Would they hit something hard enough to break the keel and not check for damage

If the checked they must have found the lack of a keel, there must have been a degree of water ingress to investigate.

Would a competent crew sail 100 kms in such a badly damaged yacht? I wouldn't!

It must have rolled like a pig and steered like ruber duck.

Somehow this has a false ring to it.
 
'It must have rolled like a pig and steered like ruBber duck.'

Don't they usually? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

BavariaKeelBolts - You are the weakest link - Goodbye!
 
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Heartely agree about accountants! The lay up costings were so far from anything done before - same materials - that it was obvious something was wrong.

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Apologies for the earlier comment - it was more than a bit billious even if it contained a grain of truth. Put it down to cr*p weather, no sailing , and 2 pints of decent ale. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
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Im thinking of buying a cat,very fast,no keel.

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Mine is having kittens soon; you're welcome to one if she has females. Usually go quite fast too, if someone sprinkles water near them. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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