Although keels must be locked down when racing, the swing keel has safety advantages for if it runs aground the keel will kick up and either slide over an obstruction or slow the boat, whereas a drop keel will stop a yacht abruptly.
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A notable construction feature is the 180 lb drop keel, which unlike the Flying Fifteen and other small racing keelboats, allows Skua to be kept on a ( lower cost ) drying mooring, and makes handling ashore much easier than it would be with a fixed keel.
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Each was fitted with a Schank drop keel, and lighter bow chasers replaced the heavy pair of guns firing forward over the bows; in later vessels one of the bow chasers would be moved aft to become a stern chaser, both of these guns then being mounted on the centreline and able to pivot.
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Special features of the ship are a " gondola ", similar to a winged keel, mounted 1.2 m below the hull, and two drop keels ( which can be lowered to a maximum of 4m below the hull ), to carry scientific instruments below the layer of microbubbles created by the movement of the ship s hull through the water.
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