false keel

British  

noun

1. an extension to the keel of a vessel either for protecting the keel from damage or for reducing leeway

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false keel

Decades of exposure to seawater had corroded the pin at the area where it connected the keel to a protective timber known as the false keel.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2010

They are split out for the addition of the false keel, and therefore should be of the most free-grained timber.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

The light of the moon showed the sheathing boards of the ship floating all round, and at last her false keel.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

The false keel is only fastened to the keel itself from underneath, because such a fastening is strong enough to resist water pressure and weak enough to allow of detachment in case of grounding.

From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by William Charles Henry Wood

She hung on to a reef, and not until she had parted with her false keel would she push on and gain the open.

From The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez