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14th January 2009

I sold my H23 a year ago. I dry-sailed her on the Vaal dam, and would regularly left and drop the keel every time I came back to the beach. The keel was stiff the very first time I launched her, but found with Q20 and with regular use, the keel always ran easily and trouble free. My rope strap never once jammed, I must have hoisted and dropped the keel well over a hundred times – myself on the winch and my young daughter ready with the securing pin.

Like lifting and dropping masts, I think it is one of those tasks that familiarity makes less daunting.

Richard (ex-H23-175)