Re: Chebacco water ballast
Your question seems to be how to get rid of 400 pounds
of useless ballast in light winds.
Do you have a Mother-In-Law? Want to rent one?
Don't try this in Very light winds, she will catch you.
(Also thinks he's a comedian.)
Question: Would the boat be faster in light winds with
less ballast?
Would the added displacement increase the W/L length,
and therefor the hull speed?
Would shifting ballast forward to raise the stern help?
Would any of this make a significant enough difference in speed
to make it all worth the complication?
Also on dumping water ballast befor pulling boat from
water on trailer:
Would Large diameter drains at the stern, (slightly above
the waterline so they would not pose a flooding problem
should they leak) work? They would work better on steeper
ramps when the extra weight would be a greater problem.
Pat Patteson
Molalla, Oregon
(Not as funny as he thinks.)
of useless ballast in light winds.
Do you have a Mother-In-Law? Want to rent one?
Don't try this in Very light winds, she will catch you.
(Also thinks he's a comedian.)
Question: Would the boat be faster in light winds with
less ballast?
Would the added displacement increase the W/L length,
and therefor the hull speed?
Would shifting ballast forward to raise the stern help?
Would any of this make a significant enough difference in speed
to make it all worth the complication?
Also on dumping water ballast befor pulling boat from
water on trailer:
Would Large diameter drains at the stern, (slightly above
the waterline so they would not pose a flooding problem
should they leak) work? They would work better on steeper
ramps when the extra weight would be a greater problem.
Pat Patteson
Molalla, Oregon
(Not as funny as he thinks.)
--- In bolger@y..., tcomrie@y... wrote:
> I will be starting one in a year or two, right now I am in the
daydreaming stage.
>
> I keep coming back to the notion of adding about fifty gallons of
water ballast in four tanks under the floorboards (might have to
> raise them a few inches). This would add 400 pounds to the boat
should I want it in strong winds and (connected to a bilge pump)
> could be emptied at sea in light winds. I recall a comment from a
Chebacco News that it handles better in strong winds with a crew,
> this should have the same effect and be less likely to walk around.
>
> For those of you who have been sailing these boats, would this be a
wise thing to do? I think I have it worked out so there are a
> minimum of structural changes, so I may put in the tanks anyway and
never use them.
>
> Also, I will probably make a self-draining cockpit. I would be
interested to know how the boat behaved if someone capsized or
> flooded a hull deliberately. Daydream daydream daydream.
>
> ---
> Tim C
I will be starting one in a year or two, right now I am in the daydreaming stage.
I keep coming back to the notion of adding about fifty gallons of water ballast in four tanks under the floorboards (might have to
raise them a few inches). This would add 400 pounds to the boat should I want it in strong winds and (connected to a bilge pump)
could be emptied at sea in light winds. I recall a comment from a Chebacco News that it handles better in strong winds with a crew,
this should have the same effect and be less likely to walk around.
For those of you who have been sailing these boats, would this be a wise thing to do? I think I have it worked out so there are a
minimum of structural changes, so I may put in the tanks anyway and never use them.
Also, I will probably make a self-draining cockpit. I would be interested to know how the boat behaved if someone capsized or
flooded a hull deliberately. Daydream daydream daydream.
---
Tim C
I keep coming back to the notion of adding about fifty gallons of water ballast in four tanks under the floorboards (might have to
raise them a few inches). This would add 400 pounds to the boat should I want it in strong winds and (connected to a bilge pump)
could be emptied at sea in light winds. I recall a comment from a Chebacco News that it handles better in strong winds with a crew,
this should have the same effect and be less likely to walk around.
For those of you who have been sailing these boats, would this be a wise thing to do? I think I have it worked out so there are a
minimum of structural changes, so I may put in the tanks anyway and never use them.
Also, I will probably make a self-draining cockpit. I would be interested to know how the boat behaved if someone capsized or
flooded a hull deliberately. Daydream daydream daydream.
---
Tim C