[C320-list] C320 boat list

[Martin Rosenberg]

Last year when I priced 4D batteries, the prices were all in the
neighborhood

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:20 AM, <millers1 at aol.com> wrote:

>
> This has been an interesting discussion.   As I noted in an earlier e-mail
> I have no list on
> #680, but the PO had installed a 3rd 4D battery  (Wt appox.115#, cost
> approx $215) .
> Using Tony's comment below:  a 5# ingot of lead costs approx. $20, so 64#
> of lead would
> cost about... $260...... Hummmm, maybe the PO of my boat was doing more
> than just
> adding reserve battery capacity. ????
>
> Art
> S/V  Liberty
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Murphy <tony at midwestphysics.com>
> To: C320-List <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
> Sent: Wed, Oct 1, 2014 8:50 am
> Subject: Re: [C320-list] C320 boat list
>
>
> Lead is roughly 0.4 pounds per cubic inch.  So roughly 64 pounds for 160
> cubic
> inches.
>
> Tony
> #886
>
> On Oct 1, 2014, at 6:51 AM, Elizabeth Schwartz <schwartz781 at optonline.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Ahoy.......20x16x1/2=160 cubic inches.......anyone know how much that
> amount
> of lead weighs?...Joe...#245
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Gary Magnuson wrote:
> >
> >> Just to add another comment about our 320 port list, It was apparent on
> a
> 2008, three boat trip to Isle Royale. A C&C 30, and a Cape Dory 30, offered
> confirmation, while at anchor, that yes, I list to port.. I assured them
> that
> she sailed just fine, and had no problem keeping up, or accommodating our
> friends, for the evening meals. When I replaced my 4d's I used a salvaged
> lead
> sheet about 20 inches, by 16 inches by 1/2 inch thick, to lay along side
> the
> battery tray on the starboard side.  It tucks up under the seat, and seems
> to
> have brought her in line with the other masts along the headed dock in the
> Apostle Islands Marina.  When viewed from the parking lot, my 320 was
> always out
> of alignment until my modification.  Now no one notices any difference,
> and the
> cocktail hour commentary has progressed to other topics.  As my wife tells
> me,
> "Just Deal with it".
> >>
> >> Gary Magnuson
> >> Time A Weigh,  #205
> >>
> >> On 9/30/2014 9:00 PM, Chris Burti wrote:
> >>> They were formerly made in California...maybe its just a little left
> >>> coast lean...
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Chris BurtiFrom: Bob and Barb Uhlman
> >>> Sent: ‎9/‎30/‎2014 8:12 PM
> >>> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> >>> Subject: Re: [C320-list] C320 boat list
> >>> We used to have a Catalina 28 and it listed to port also.  Maybe all
> >>> Catalina's list to port?
> >>>
> >>> Barb Uhlman
> >>> Whisper, 1158
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 6:14 PM, Jeff Hare  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> We're a polite bunch.  :)
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: C320-list [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On
> Behalf
> >>> Of Allan S Field
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 6:09 PM
> >>> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> >>> Subject: Re: [C320-list] C320 boat list
> >>>
> >>> My waterline is OK as I moved it up about 2 inches several years ago.
> Got
> >>> tired of scraping the barnacles where there was no  bottom paint; now
> there
> >>> is bottom paint!  I sacrificed most of the blue stripe at the bottom
> but so
> >>> far, no other person has ever noticed the difference unless I point it
> out!
> >>>
> >>> Allan S. Field
> >>> Sent from my iPad
> >>>
> >>>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 5:50 PM, Elizabeth Schwartz
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Ahoy.....#245 has a noticable list to port.......the waterline to
> port is
> >>> visably lower in the water.....Joe...
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 02:52 PM, millers1 at aol.com wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Allan,
> >>>>> I did, and it just stays in a puddle.  The boat looks perfect from
> >>>>> astern, ahead and athwart ships., even sighting the mast, etc.....
> she is
> >>> on her her lines.
> >>>>> As I noted in an earlier e-mail, the PO installed a 3rd, 4D battery
> >>> (120#) on the starboard side.
> >>>>> With out that weight she may lean to Port(?).
> >>>>> Something must be off center, because with the: house batteries,
> head,
> >>> aft water tnk. and fuel tnk. all on the Stbd side one would expect a
> list to
> >>> Starboard (?), not Port.
> >>>>> It is hard to prove , because of variable conditions, but  when on a
> Port
> >>> or Starboard tack, my boat is faster on Starboard.
> >>>>> Lets see how your off-ctr. comment stands up on the forum!!!!!!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Art    #680
> >>>>>  -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: Allan S Field To: C320-List Sent: Tue, Sep 30, 2014 1:26 pm
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [C320-list] C320 boat list
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Spill a little bit of water on the counter to the right of the galley
> >>> faucet and see which way the water runs.  If it does not run to port, I
> >>> doubt you have a C320!  Seriously though, my sense after 13 years with
> the
> >>> boat is that the list is not a weight problem but rather the original
> mold
> >>> was off center.  Just my opinion but I am sticking with it until proven
> >>> wrong!
> >>>>> Allan S. Field
> >>>>> Sent from my iPad
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Sep 27, 2014, at 9:46 PM, Millers  wrote:
>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I have heard people mention a boat list.  Which way does the boat
> >>>>>> list, if it
> >>>>> has a list??  My hull #680 has no visible list.  The PO did install a
> >>> third 4D battery on the Stbd. Side.
> >>>>>> Art
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Sep 27, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Amiraults Family  wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Jeff:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I would think an additional 9 gallons of diesel would be a boon for
> >>>>>>> a few, but for those of us who mainly motor out of harbor and back
> >>>>>>> in after a sail
> >>>>>>> - not so much. With the short season before putting Bear on the
> >>>>>>> hard, I usually use less than a half tank as it is. Thus the
> >>>>>>> diesel, although diluted with new in the fall, is generally growing
> >>>>>>> older and older. It gets a stabilizer and biocide but I still
> wonder..
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Sure would like to lose the list, though.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Brian Amirault
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 797 Waltzing Bear, too
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
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