Melges 20 Keel Shots from Charleston Race Week Monday, April 12, 2010
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In decent, but not huge, breeze on Friday, at least one Melges 20 looked more like a Laser than it’s bigger cousin the Melges 24. Notice the crew guy goes over the rail and steps on the keel to right the boat!
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These screenshots came from 1 minute 12 seconds into Sailing Anarchy’s highlight reel from Day 1 of Charleston Race Week 2010. To see the full video click here, it’s pretty cool.
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the windward mark anchor, dragged by another sailor, was caught in our keel! We backed down and thus released the windward mark anchor.
Really? It looks like you spun out, got knocked down, and washed your spreaders.
Don’t you have a kelp cutter? Or was the chain up on the keel?