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A keelboat is a riverine cargo-capable working boat, or a small- to mid-sized recreational sailing yacht. The boats in the first category have shallow structural keels, and are nearly flat-bottomed and often used leeboards if forced in open water, while modern recreational keelboats have prominent fixed fin keels, and considerable draft.
his near folklorish, tales and legends, as the Ohio and Mississippi keelboat riverman, who could outshoot, outfight, and outdrink all challengers Mike Fink (also spelled Miche Phinck ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] (c. 1770/1780 – c. 1823), called "king of the keelboaters", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard ...
A. Abbott 33; Accent 26; Access Liberty; Achilles 24; Aero 20; Ajax 23; Alacrity 19; Alajuela 33; Alajuela 38; Alberg 22; Alberg 29; Alberg 30; Alberg 37; Alberg ...
List of keelboat classes designed before 1970; Olympic sailing classes; Small-craft sailing; References This page was last edited on 7 October 2024, at 05:27 (UTC). ...
Brick (keelboat) 1964: Jean-Jacques Herbulot: Chantier Mallard Archambault Boats [89] Bridges Point 24: 1985: Joel White: Bridges Point Boatyard Bridges Point Boat Company [90] Bristol 29.9: 1977: Halsey Chase Herreshoff: Bristol Yachts [91] Bristol 39: 1966: Ted Hood: Bristol Yachts [92] Bristol 40: 1970: Ted Hood: Bristol Yachts [93] Bristol ...
Annie Christmas or flatboat Annie [1] is a character in the folklore and tall tales of Louisiana, described as a 7 feet (2.1 m) tall, supernaturally strong African-American woman keelboat captain. She has been described as a female counterpart of the John Henry character, another supernaturally strong African American folklore character. Like ...
The Star is a 6.9 metres (23 ft) one-design racing keelboat for two people designed by Francis Sweisguth in 1910. The Star was an Olympic keelboat class from 1932 through to 2012, the last year keelboats appeared at the Summer Olympics. It is sloop-rigged, with a mainsail larger in proportional size than any other boat of its length.
The Skipper 20 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim and simulated lapstrake construction. It has a fractional sloop rig, canoe hull with a raked stem, a rounded transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel.