My keel fell off any advice welcome

sarabande said:
that';s sad news.

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Perhaps worth a call to see if they have the drawings ?
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Hopefully they still exist, better get practicing my French
 
well that really is strange.... so it's somewhere in the lake?

I know its not an ocean but I guess even with some sort of sonic device dragged across the lake floor your' not going to find it in a hurry even if you checked your track back and forth on a plotter.

So, if the insurance company will stand the loss can't they do the footwork and get you another?

best of luck
S.
 
I recon I could look angry.

What is magnetometer?

It is a big lake about 10 miles long, and I think a mile at its widest or 14.73 Km 2, at it's deepest it is 219ft or 66.7m. Might need a submarine :)
 
Scareyclott said:
Hopefully they still exist, better get practicing my French
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Gib'sea ended up being taken over by Dufour, so you could try calling the UK Dufour distributors who may (or may not) be able to help or put you in touch with someone who can. In the south at least, google says this is Marco Marine, http://www.marcomarine.co.uk/. This may be your best route to a ready-made replacement part. There is also an owners' association http://www.gibsea.org.uk/ although it doesn't look very active.

The boat is pretty old though and my own experience of trying to do something like this (source a replacement rudder for a Hanse 301) was that the UK distributor was completley uncertain what was available or suitable despite a) the marque still being very much in business and b) the boat being at least 10 years younger. We ended up rebuilding the existing rudder and you may well end up having to fabricate a new keel.

FWIW re some of the remote sensing solutions proposed (a magnetometer is something that looks for magnetic anomalies produced by large metal objects) I would say these are not practical. the keel is small in comparison to the search area so I suspect the magnetometer would have to be a very high resolution device (expensive) or towed extremely slowly (expensive) and even then you will not be able to discriminate the keel from all sorts of rubbish without checking every anomaly (expensive). As a ball park I would guess a survey of this sort would cost much more than the value of the boat! You are best considering the keel lost and following up the replacement or refabrication options IMHO. Best of luck with it,

Cheers
 
Thanks for the advice Bitbaltic, I am not adverse to having one fabricated I had a rudder made about a year and a half ago. The problem I may have is calculating the dimensions. I have one picture of it half out but that is about it.

The class association is a bit in active, I am a member and have posted there. I might give some of the boat breakers a call see if they have anything

Thanks again
Scott
 
Scareyclott said:
Thanks for the advice Bitbaltic, I am not adverse to having one fabricated I had a rudder made about a year and a half ago. The problem I may have is calculating the dimensions. I have one picture of it half out but that is about it.
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Would it perhaps be a reasonable starting point to make one which snugly fits the casing when raised?
 
What about rowing about in a dingy with a strong rare earth magnet on a rope? If it got near the keel it would latch on with significant force so that you would notice it. It might take a while but you also might find a coupple of kids that would do it for a tenner plus the offer of a substantial reward (a big mac or such like).
 
Yea that will be the way forward a template, I was hoping I might find someone that has one that I can make a template from, even if I have to pay for a lift and hull clean

Scott
 
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