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yateleyboatbuilder

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H F M Sailing Barge.
« on: June 02, 2020, 08:33:43 pm »
Hello All, Doe's anybody out there have an H F M Harvey Middleton sailing barge! and if so, can you remember how much ballast you put in it. Hopeing to hear. {:-{
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Re: H F M Sailing Barge.
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2020, 09:51:26 pm »
If I remember correctly it used one of the HFM 590 bulb keels, removable of course! If I am right it had a steel bar within it which was about 25mm diameter and about 100mm long, this was roughly 125mm below the hull, on a 590 that is. I assume the same applied to the barge.
Await some better answers, I am trying to remember something I had 25 years ago!!
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Re: H F M Sailing Barge.
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2020, 07:20:12 am »
Hi

I seem to recall that I used an old diving wight, can not for the life of me  remember if it was the full or just some of it, but I do remember that I had to enlarge the rudder to make it work

Fred
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Re: H F M Sailing Barge.
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2020, 04:56:23 pm »
When I built a " James Piper " Sailing Barge I made 3 removable Keels of different weights for different strengths of wind.

Len.
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