[Public-List] Stern squat.

[Gordon Laco]

Hi David - 

I think that boat was GRAYLING, she's a nice one.  I think I saw her at
Toronto's National Yacht Club since she was sold.

So she had trip ballast up forward?  Maybe I shouldn't be so bashful about
what I've done with SURPRISE.

Perhaps we should share photos of our boats at rest to compare trim?

Gord Surprise #426




On 15/02/13 10:21 AM, "David Tessier" <dfjtessier at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I looked at a certain pre-liner one-owner (if you count father, then son as
> one owner) A30 with turquoise topsides and a short-footed mainsail that lived
> up near Gord Laco on The Georgian Bay, as it is called on the old charts.  She
> had had a long  and perhaps distinguished racing career in the Toronto area.
> During the several hours I enjoyed crawling all over her under her winter
> cover, I found a tidy little pile of lead (Pb) ingots up under the Vee berth,
> which I was told helped her racing trim whilst, I assumed, meeting the
> applicable one design rules.
> I thought that I read somewhere that the squat stern trim of the A30 resulted
> from a misunderstanding (!) between the designer and the builder, along the
> lines of the rig (not fractional), size of mainsail (over large) and the use
> of iron (not lead) ballast.  Who knows!  I love our mystery lady all the same.
> I suppose that my 90' of anchor chain in the bow is helping our fore/aft trim,
> perhaps partly compensating for my 205 lb weight in the cockpit.  And I have
> photographic evidence from MariAnne cove anchorage that shifting myself from
> cockpit to bow makes a discernable difference in trim, judging from the boot
> stripe.
> Cheers,David TROIS BOULEAUX #319.
> P.S.: Anyone chartered a sailboat in the Whitsundays?  We have lined one up
> for a week in March and would welcome any advice.          
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