These are pictures o the keel trunk from a 1999 or 2000 Potter. The owner cut out the keel trunk to try an experimental lifting keel with a bulb Otorpeado at the bottom. The pictures are very interesting, because they show how thick the hull and keel trunk in a Potter 19 are, and how the hull liner is joined to the hull.
The keel trunk has been cut out of the boat to be replaced with a trunk shaped for the new bulb keel. |
A view of the aft end of the keel trunk. The glass laminate on the oterside of the hull (gray layer at the bottom) is almost 7/8 inches thick as built by the factory. Above that is additional glass and slurry added by the present owner; it it not factory built. The original cabin liner was removed when the owner made this modification. |
Here's the view looking aft at the hole in the hull from which the keel trunk was cut. |
The edge of the keel cutout, looking aft, just behind the keel |
A view of the side of the keel trunk, at the aft end. Aft of the measuring tape, the hull is a beefy 3/4 inch thick laminate (dark gray color), as originally built by the factory. The stuff above the original laminate was a modificaton by the owner. |
Another side view of the aft end of the trunk. |
A view of the hole in the Potter 19 hull, in the middle of the trunk. the original hull laminate here a full 1/2" thick (gray color layer). |
Another side view of the cross section of the hull at the side. |
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