[C320-list] C320 boat list

Elizabeth Schwartz schwartz781 at optonline.net
Tue Sep 30 17:19:32 PDT 2014


Ahoy.....My Catalina 30.....1988 model....sat upright on her 
lines......Joe....#245


On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 08:12 PM, Bob and Barb Uhlman wrote:

> 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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