[C320-list] Jack stand height

[tharrison at innovations-plus.com]

Why not just go by the cradle specifications. That would at least tell you the approximated height. Then you can adjust the pads at he loading time. 

The pads are fixed on the cradle specifications and arenot adjustable. I cannot adjust my cradle pads

Ted hull 424 1997 

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> On Sep 22, 2014, at 5:40 PM, Dean Vermeire <dean at vermeire.us> wrote:
> 
> The hull id list on the Catalina 320 web site lists #847 (my boat, coincidentally) as being the first to switch back to the 4' 4" draft.  I'd have to believe yours is the same.
> 
>> On 9/22/2014 4:27 PM, Ed Lockett wrote:
>> We actually won't be using jack stands, but will have it on an adjustable sail boat trailer with 4 bracing pads.  Are just trying to get a good idea of how high up to adjust the bracing pads before pulling out the boat.  Ours is a 2001 with hull #852.  Probably a 4'10"  draft.
>> 
>> Ed Lockett
>> Alabama Girl
>> 
>>> On Sep 22, 2014, at 4:38 PM, Amiraults Family wrote:
>>> 
>>> All:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> My club does not allow jack stands, so everyone uses cradles. Still, to
>>> relieve a small portion of my ignorance clear something up for me. I would
>>> think that the height of the stands for a wing keel C320 would depend (all
>>> else remaining equal) on the hull number. My memory is that early hull had a
>>> 4'4" draft. Later, the bilge was deepened with no change to the keel
>>> resulting, as in my boat, in a 4'10" draft; which I think would require a
>>> taller stand. Even later, the bilge remained the same while Catalina
>>> supplied a lower profile wing thus reducing the draft again to the original
>>> 4'4".
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Brian Amirault
>>> 
>>> 797 Waltzing Bear, too
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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