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Strip: Protruding keel strip
By:Carl Kessler
Date: 11/14/2010, 10:35 am

Am building my first strip canoe a bootlegger while stripping bottom it hit me why not add a small keel strip. Has anyone on a bootlegger canoe or other kayak put a vertical strip on the center keel line protruding the width of a strip to create an actual keel similar to a small row boat would have? Would this create better tracking while paddeling? If so should the strip protrude from end to end and blend back in at the stems?

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Strip: Protruding keel strip
Carl Kessler -- 11/14/2010, 10:35 am
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Les Cheeseman -- 11/15/2010, 2:49 pm
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PatrickC -- 11/14/2010, 7:08 pm
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Reg Lake -- 11/14/2010, 1:24 pm
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Charlie -- 11/14/2010, 11:17 am