The keel sits on the bottom-most part of a boat in the center of the hull. Many refer to it as the backbone which you take literally and figuratively. The classic example is a wedge-shaped piece with ...

At a first glance it does indeed seem that if anything under the sun could be radically new it is the fin-keel yacht. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Ingalls Shipbuilding laid the John Finn keel in November 2013 and will christen the ship on May 2. The yard has three more destroyers under construction and four more under contract.

The Bayesian’s keel — a fin-shaped structure on the underside of the hull that’s instrumental in keeping sailboats balanced against their masts — could be raised and lowered, a common ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division authenticated the keel of the company's 29th Arleigh Burke-class aegis guided-missile (DDG 51) destroyer, John Finn (DDG 113), on ...