Six months into the project, the outer skeleton of the boat — later named INSV Mhadei — was ready. The next big hurdle was making the keel, literally the backbone of a sailboat. It involved pouring nine tonnes of lead into the keel. Dandekar travelled to a Vasai-based battery manufacturing company to ...
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