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    A canting keel is a form of sailing ballast, suspended from a rigid canting strut beneath the boat, which can be swung to windward of a boat under sail...
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  • is deployed when the keel is tilted, and retracted (to reduce drag) when the keel is returned to the vertical. Some canting keels are designed so that...
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    placed to windward to reduce heel in high winds; this type of keel is called a canting keel, and is used in the newest Volvo Ocean Race's Volvo Open 70...
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    water (canting keels) to move the ballasting effect to one side and allow the boat to sail in a more upright position. Coin ceremony Kelson False keel Daggerboard...
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    respect to dimensions, such as keel depth and mast height, and it allows for advanced technology such as "canting" keels and carbon-fibre masts. The prototype...
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  • of 9.6 m, and a displacement of 50 t. It was equipped with a canting keel, with a 10 t keel bulb, which is able to exert a much larger righting moment than...
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    Sailboat (section Keel)
    "wings" which run sideways from the main part of the keel. Even more recent is the concept of canting keels, designed to move the weight at the bottom of a...
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  • transom; dual, canted, internally mounted spade-type rudders controlled by dual wheels, hull-mounted hydrofoils and a canting fin keel with a weighted...
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    freedom within the rules. Several parts including the mast, boom and the canting keel ram and fin are one design for safety reasons. After several severe incidents...
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    Shaw 10: Flushed decked canting keel yacht. Shaw 10.6CR: A cruiser/racer with a canting keel. Shaw 11: A racer with a canting keel, developed from the Shaw...
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    carbon fibres (which were not allowed for VO60s). It uses a canting keel which is capable of canting transversely up to an angle of 40 degrees. The Volvo Open...
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    with a higher-aspect ratio fin keel with hydrodynamically efficient bulbs for ballast. On some racing yachts, a canting keel shifts angle from side to side...
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    2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race, replaced thereafter by the sophisticated, canting keel Volvo Open 70, built to a new box rule. A total of 32 Volvo Ocean 60s...
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  • controlled by a tiller and an electrically actuated canting fin keel with a weighted bulb. The keel may be canted up to 45° to either side to provide additional...
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    Soldini. The boat capsized with the keel and keel bulb attached and was unable to right itself despite having a canting keel. Primarily because of the large...
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  • CBTF Technology is the patent holder of canting keel technology used in the design of some notable racing yachts in recent years, including Wild Oats XI...
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    with a higher-aspect ratio fin keel with hydrodynamically efficient bulbs for ballast. On some racing yachts, a canting keel shifts angle from side to side...
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    uses a host of design tricks, including wings/foils and a telescopic canting keel, a retractable bowsprit and an asymmetrical spinnaker, has been designed...
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    power-to-weight ratio, she is rigged with a carbonfiber rotating mast and has a canting keel. Due to the unprecedented performance of the boat when built, the design...
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    respect to dimensions, such as keel depth and mast height, and it allows for advanced technology such as "canting" keels and carbon-fibre masts. The prototype...
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    Farr-designed keel canting mechanisms, including an abandonment of the yacht Movistar which was unable to prevent the flow of water through the keel box and...
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    (144 ft) carbon fibre mast built by Southern Spars, water ballast, and a canting keel. She is thought to be capable of 35 knots (40 mph; 60 km/h) downwind...
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    carbon fibre, thermoformed sails, rotating wingmasts, water ballasts, canting keels, and hydrofoils. Previous smaller maxi yachts are still raced with corrected...
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    Carbon Nomex Sandwich Beam 5.70 m (18.7 ft) Hull appendages Keel/board type Canting Keel Ballast Water Ballast Rudder(s) Twin Rudders Rig Rig type Rotating...
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    distinctively narrow with a 5.1 m (17 ft) beam and originally featured "canting ballast twin foil" appendages enabling her to carry a large sail plan without...
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    3 h 43 m 50 s 100 ft Farr design canting keel ICAP Leopard Mike Slade 2008 3 h 53 m 100 ft Farr design canting keel ICAP Leopard Mike Slade 2001 4 h 5 m 40 s...
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    MACIF Santé Prévoyance Hull appendages General two rudders, two foils Keel/board type canting keel Racing Class association IMOCA 60 [edit on Wikidata]...
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  • mounted spade-type rudders controlled by dual wheels and a canting, high aspect ratio fin keel with a weighted bulb. It also has a separate lifting canard...
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  • Michael Slade, who has owned maxi yachts for over 22 years. She features a canting keel, water ballast and twin daggerboards amidships. ICAP Leopard 3 holds...
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    meters to fit the A category. We also wanted lateral ballast, because a canting keel was at that time far out of target budget – yet high stability was needed...
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