Re:Black Skimmer weight
Oh yeah, that 2700 lb weight includes 4.5hp Evinrude two-cylinder two-stroke
long-shaft, AND group 24 deep-cycle battery.
Wayne Gilham
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long-shaft, AND group 24 deep-cycle battery.
Wayne Gilham
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My Black Skimmer has been weighed at a truck-scale (boat with trailer, then
empty trailer) - confirming actual boat weight is 2700 lb, including masts
and rig. For what it's worth, this boat has the full steel-plate ballast
as-designed, also has about 150 lb of lead-pigs in the bow to counteract the
much lighter hollow Spruce mast now fitted (compared to the original
solid-timber mast as-designed). So this one is pretty much per Phil's
drawings. Trailer is a 3000#-rated single-axle trailer with full roller
support - it weighs about 700 lb, for towing weight of 3400 lb, CONFIRMED.
Wayne Gilham
Tacoma WA
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empty trailer) - confirming actual boat weight is 2700 lb, including masts
and rig. For what it's worth, this boat has the full steel-plate ballast
as-designed, also has about 150 lb of lead-pigs in the bow to counteract the
much lighter hollow Spruce mast now fitted (compared to the original
solid-timber mast as-designed). So this one is pretty much per Phil's
drawings. Trailer is a 3000#-rated single-axle trailer with full roller
support - it weighs about 700 lb, for towing weight of 3400 lb, CONFIRMED.
Wayne Gilham
Tacoma WA
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--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, Harry James <welshman@...> wrote:
still very light for a 25' boat. Independant Boat Haulers launch and
retrieve mine and they often remark on how light it is.
>think a
> On Payson's web site the bare hull weight for the Black Skimmer says
> 1200, displacement 2800. It also says 500lbs ballast. Is the weight for
> trailering 1200 plus mast batteries, outboard and sails? I would
> 2000 lb trailer with. an extended tongue would work. Anybody knowI would put the trailerable weight more at around 3,000 lbs, which is
> different.
>
> HJ
>
still very light for a 25' boat. Independant Boat Haulers launch and
retrieve mine and they often remark on how light it is.
On Payson's web site the bare hull weight for the Black Skimmer says
1200, displacement 2800. It also says 500lbs ballast. Is the weight for
trailering 1200 plus mast batteries, outboard and sails? I would think a
2000 lb trailer with. an extended tongue would work. Anybody know
different.
HJ
1200, displacement 2800. It also says 500lbs ballast. Is the weight for
trailering 1200 plus mast batteries, outboard and sails? I would think a
2000 lb trailer with. an extended tongue would work. Anybody know
different.
HJ