S--Bilge Keel. What does it look like?

[actionoptics]

I'm considering a Dartsailer 38 which seems to be a bigger version of my LM30
but before travelling to Holland to see one, it is described as having an S-Bilge Keel.
Can anyone explain in English what that means.
I have contacted the Dutch agent and was referred to their web site for a description of the boat
but there is no details about the bilge configuration.

 

[VicS]

I'm considering a Dartsailer 38 which seems to be a bigger version of my LM30
but before travelling to Holland to see one, it is described as having an S-Bilge Keel.
Can anyone explain in English what that means.
I have contacted the Dutch agent and was referred to their web site for a description of the boat
but there is no details about the bilge configuration.

A long keel with a deepish round bilged hull, not a deep V shape ???

 

[alahol2]

Maybe some clues to be found in here somewhere... http://www.dartsailerclub.nl/index.htm

 

[Tam Lin]

Maybe some clues to be found in here somewhere... http://www.dartsailerclub.nl/index.htm

That site's all Dutch to me! Nice boat though!

 

[actionoptics]

Maybe some clues to be found in here somewhere... http://www.dartsailerclub.nl/index.htm

Thanks but I did find that site and as Tam Lin says, it's all dutch.

 

[halb]

Yes it is in Dutch, but Google have a very good translation free add on, read the whole site in good English, not the D Dutch

 

[duncan99210]

Wheni googled s bilge keel, it threw up a couple of pictures of long stub fins on the bilges: small additional keels that looked as if they'd been bolted on to a boat to improve stability. By long, I mean long in terms of along the length of the boat, they looked to protrude no more than a few inches from the hull.

 

[AdrianR]

Just in case anyone else finds this thread, the issue here is that from Nederlands s-pant doesn't translate literally. The English equivalent is an S-bottom hull. Searching for that will result in several sources giving a definition. The Wikipedia page for a hull includes one, at Hull (watercraft) - Wikipedia within the Smooth curve hulls section. Hope this helps someone!