[C320-list] Jack stand height

[John Meyers]

Because the yard crew had a hard time adjusting my cradle rusty jack stands
last fall, I took them home over the summer and loosened them up and oiled
them so the adjusting wing nuts spin very freely and can be adjusted with
little effort. I hope they can put only a two by 6 or 8 under the keel and
keep the boat lower to the ground so I don't need to climb/reach too high
to polish the sides which can't come soon enough.

John Meyers
Wind Chime 1997 #406
Muskegon, MI

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:25 PM, tharrison at innovations-plus.com <
tharrison at innovations-plus.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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