[C320-list] Traversing the Intracoastal

[Irving Grunes]

On the lake Okachobee canal across Florida there is a guy that puts 55
gallon drums on the edge of the boat and fills them with water until the
boat heels enough to get under the bridges and then just drain the drums
after.
Irv #851

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:53 AM, <bruceheyman at cox.net> wrote:

> Irv,
> The chase boat or someone on the dock with a tag line could easily get the
> boat to start the heal.  The bags look like they could hold a lot more
> weight.  I'll bet there was no advanced calculations just keep adding weight
> till it touches the water.
> I've see where the Coast Guard will do something similar to determine a
> vessels stability.
> Bruce
> Somerset 671 SoCal
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>
> Allan,
> Just realized that the length of the halyard holding the lower ball
> determined that the mast height would clear when the ball hit the water.
> The question is, how did they get the balls to be over the starboard side
> to
> get the boat to start to heel?
> Wonder how to calculate the weight of the balls needed to get the desired
> heel?
> Irv Grunes
> #851
>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Allan S. Field <allan.field at verizon.net
> >wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Here's the video of the boat with the "balls":
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGAzt-8minI
> >
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> >
> >
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