[Public-List] Stern squat.

[Gordon Laco]

I meant to say 'trim ballast', not 'trip ballast'....


On 15/02/13 10:26 AM, "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> 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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