[PUP] Alanui 350 miles down, 150 to go!

[Andre]

Hello, first post here  I'm new to this list.

I wonder if it would be better to use two "cutters" per stabiliser?
Like this:

> |     |
>   F
>   P
>   F
>   F
>   F

Where the F's are the fin seen from above, P the pivot point,  and the
I's are the cutters.  This way you'd have some "wiggle-room" with the
fins, while still protecting the gap (I'm thinking the chance of the
end of a rope going in between is next to zero)?


Andre, Denmark

Den 24/02/2008 kl. 16.18 skrev Milt Baker:

> --A "kelp cutter" for each stabilizer fin.  This is simply a
> triangular-
> shaped fiberglass guard on the hull directly ahead of the stabilizer
> fin which prevents line from going between the hull and the fin.  Some
> kelp cutters, like the ones on Bruce Kessler's Spirit of Zopilote, are
> made of stainless steel and are sharpened to cut lines.
>
> --Keeping the stabilizer fins centered when cruising in pot-infested
> waters.  That, of course, is because the kelp cutters cover the gap
> between the fin and the hull only when the fins are centered.