dancrane
Well-known member
It's not only the rarer, smart-looking metals. The Pinnell & Bax page has slender brass keel-band at £27 per meter, but even the plastic variety is £9 per meter...
...and for what, exactly? A half-inch wide strip of plastic?
Actually I'm not especially fussed about the price, as long as I can sort out the damage to my old keel-band without a cock-up. Parts of mine are fine, but there's damage forward of the centreboard case and several inches have just dropped off.
If my use of the boat means she'll be prone to making some hard and sudden landfalls, is a thicker, chunkier section better, as offering more resistance to impact?
I'm guessing it'll be best to unscrew all of the broken band and replace it with one new piece (of a cheap material, necessarily), rather than leave okay-bits of the existing metal band in place.
Any idea how they'll mail three meters of the stuff? I get the feeling it doesn't bend very easily.
...and for what, exactly? A half-inch wide strip of plastic?
Actually I'm not especially fussed about the price, as long as I can sort out the damage to my old keel-band without a cock-up. Parts of mine are fine, but there's damage forward of the centreboard case and several inches have just dropped off.
If my use of the boat means she'll be prone to making some hard and sudden landfalls, is a thicker, chunkier section better, as offering more resistance to impact?
I'm guessing it'll be best to unscrew all of the broken band and replace it with one new piece (of a cheap material, necessarily), rather than leave okay-bits of the existing metal band in place.
Any idea how they'll mail three meters of the stuff? I get the feeling it doesn't bend very easily.