Open keelboat

A fighter

An open keelboat , also known as an open keel yacht , is a keeled sailboat without a cabin . In contrast to a dinghy , a keelboat has a permanently attached keel with ballast and is therefore weight stable. This means that the center of gravity is so low that it represents a considerable righting moment for the boat (principle of the "stand up man"). This makes it very difficult for open keelboats to overturn and usually straighten up from any position. Typical open keel boats have a flat foredeck from bow to mast and an equally flat aft deck behind the rudder (tiller). They are "open" between mast and rudder, which is why they are called. Examples of open keel boats are the Kielzugvogel and the Fighter .

A keelboat with a cabin, on the other hand, is called a sailing yacht .

literature

• Alfred Dudszus, Alfred Köpcke: The big book of ship types . Augsburg, Weltbild Verlag (licensed edition, transpress, Berlin), 1995, ISBN 3-89350-831-7