[C320-list] Adding ballast

[DAVE Swanson]

All, 

I was going to trim my boat with our lead dive weights before a trip of ours and I got side tracked with some emergency repairs to our C320…  

We were just getting ready to head to Victoria Canada (for work believe it or not, for an Earthquake Engineering Conference that I will be attending) and I noticed a cracked engine intake hose and a bulging shaft log hose.  I tried an interim fix with silicone tape and a couple of hose clamps to get me to the haul-out facility for an emergency houlout.  As you know, these kids of problems can potentially sink a boat, so we had her hauled out yesterday and I made repairs to these items last night.  I balmy 90 degrees in Seattle and about 92 in the boat cabin 10 feet off of the yards pavement!  Nice to have a lot of 12v fans!

So, today, we are going to launch the boat and head up to Victoria Canada.  So I will trim out the boat with the weight that I have and let everyone know how much weight I use and and where i place it.  

BTW, our boat weighed 19,000 Lbs on the travel lift!  It has two full fridges, dighy, outboard, full water and fuel tanks and all of our crabbing gear and clothes on board for a weeks cruise.  The haulout operator said that they just had their travelift calibrated and it was within 100 lbs.  

I’ll post pictures of the 19,000 haulout and the dive weight trim exercise on the C320IA website later this week.  

Our C320 MK II is one heavy boat.  

Dave

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> On Jul 19, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Warren Updike <wupdike at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That is a really good suggestion, much better than a formed-in-place weight
> that would be tough to extract. Based on the other responses, I'm guessing
> that 100-125lbs would be sufficient. We don't make much use of the storage
> holes behind the settee and aft cabin so that sounds good. I'm guessing
> there is space in the aft stbd side somewhere around the fuel tank. There
> the weights would need to be secured.
> Why do this? 
> 1. Here on the Chesapeake there is A LOT of turbidity in the water. It
> accumulates on the surface and attaches to the port-side water line as scum.
> Looks bad and hard to remove. Also, the stbd bottom paint is out of the
> water.
> 2. With the port side white strip submerged and blue strip partly submerged,
> barnacles will attach. They are hard to get off without marring the surface.
> 
> 3. I don't like the look of the list and don't want to try to explain it
> away to a prospective buyer.
> 
> Warren and Pattie Updike
> 1994 C320 "Warr de Mar" #62
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Utility Email [mailto:kswanson123 at comcast.net] 
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 8:50 PM
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Adding ballast
> 
> Warren,
> 
> When sailing to Catalina Island a couple of years ago, we brought our scuba
> gear.  Our scuba weights are lead shot in mesh bags, so I placed that lead
> shot dive weights behind the salon seats on the starboard side to help
> offset the port list and it worked really well.  I also placed some of the
> lead shot under the small seat on the starboard side in our aft cabin. 
> 
> These locations were concealed and out of the way and especially the salon
> seat back locations were also the farthest away concealed location from the
> boat centerline that I could find.  Being lead, the weight was the most
> efficient size possible as well. 
> 
> As I write this, I will probably just put that lead shot back onto our boat
> and keep it stored in those locations to reduce our port list. 
> 
> Dave Swanson
> S/V Emily Ann
> 2007 C320 MK II, No. 1107
> Mukilteo, WA
> 
>> On Jul 17, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Warren Updike <wupdike at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Two years ago we added an air conditioner in the port locker. Works great.
>> Sorry we didn't do it sooner. However, the additional 60lbs only added to
>> the port list. I located a company in Baltimore that makes a product
>> specifically for custom molded ballast. It's a cement type product to
> which
>> you add water to create a ballast of a desired shape. I've been thinking
> of
>> adding about 100-125 lbs of ballast to the port side to compensate for the
>> list which is now an issue for me. I can't determine where to put the
>> ballast. There is no room in the battery area under the settee, nor
> outboard
>> of the holding tank. I could place some in the space under the little seat
>> in the aft cabin, and in the storage holes behind the head cushion in the
>> aft berth. Perhaps under the fuel tank, maybe in the bottom of the hanging
>> locker, or in the stbd storage space under the aft berth. 
>> 
>> Anyone done this or have ideas?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Warren Updike
>> 
>> Towson, MD
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
>