Keel hauled!

I sometimes wonder if the editor of Practical Boat Owner isn’t stalking me. Maybe it’s because Beowulf, my swing keel Jaguar 25, is a lady of a certain age, but when I have niggles or nightmares with her, it’s uncanny that I find the same issues mirrored in the editor’s choice of articles in the next PBO.

I was really spooked when I turned to Dick Everitt’s Sketchbook page in the July 2019 edition ‘Overcoming Centreboard Problems’ because the last but one sketch echoed exactly what had happened to my boat. On her half tide mooring, over the winter, had shed her keel. Now we had to work out how to find it, how to lift it from the bottom