Trident 24 - Triple keel

More than half of all Tridents are triple keelers. Drawing just 2'6" they are particularly suited to shallow and drying harbours.

The central cast-iron ballast keel is flanked by two galvanised steel bilge plates ½" thick. These bilge plates are set 6 inches into the hull and glassed over with 3 layers of GRP (2oz csm) before being through-bolted with stainless steel bolts.

The bilgeplates are further braced by 7/8" plywood longitudinals which run the length of the saloon and are embedded into the saloon bulkheads fore and aft.

The whole assembly is glassed into the hull and bulkheads with a further 2 layers of GRP making the bilge plates immensely strong and watertight. These intrusions into the saloon are hidden under the bunks and have the added advantage of isolating the underbunk lockers from any water that may get into the bilges, ensuring anything stored there remains dry and free from oil or diesel contamination. The divisions between the under-bunk lockers provide additional transverse stiffening to the bilge plates.