Sailing craft

A sailing craft including a one-piece hull design, a unitary mast-keel-ballast assembly rotatably mounted on said hull and including a mast, a depending keel, and a ballast positioned on the lower edge of said keel, said mast-keel-ballast assembly having a pivotal axis adjacent the upper surface of the hull, a pair of spaced stops positioned in said hull and cooperating with said mast-keel-ballast assembly to limit the arc of rotation thereof, at least one generally circular member rigidly connecting the mast and keel together, and a plurality of rollers positioned in the hull engaging at least one surface of and guiding rotary movement of the generally circular member.

A sailing craft including a hull, a mast and a keel connected together as a unitary assembly rotatably mounted on and movable laterally relative to the hull so that movement of said mast in one direction will result in a proportionate movement of the keel in the opposite direction, a ballast positioned on the lower edge of the keel, the pivotal axis of said mast-keel assembly being adjacent the upper surface of the hull, a pair of axially spaced generally circular members, one of which connects said mast and keel together, an arcuate guide channel in said hull for each circular member, a plurality of rollers mounted in the hull engaging only the interior surface of each circular member to allow and guide rotary movement of the mast-keel assembly, a pair of stops in each channel to limit rotary movement of the keel, and a shock absorber located on each side of said keel and adapted to cooperate with a respective stop.