[Public-List] Stern squat.

[David Gilbert]

Big Kanu is # 620 and sports a liner; one of the newer ones if you can  
call a boat built in 1977 "newer". I have heard that Carl Alberg  
designed the 30 at the request of some sailors in the Chesapeake Bay  
and that it was designed without an engine. Kurt Hansen, being smart  
enough to recognize the potential, installed an engine without  
altering the ballast - ergo, she squats. Last year at launch, well  
before the mast was reinstalled, I had members come to me in a panic  
because they thought the boat was taking on water.
David
On 14-Feb-13, at 11:27 PM, Jeremy Brown wrote:

> Hi all,
> As I finish up some projects and spend more time actually relaxing  
> on the boat I'm noticing some things that bug me that I would like  
> to fix soon.   One of the biggest is the squat at the stern.  While  
> I do need to empty the aft lockers, and currently have nothing up  
> front, it seems to me that it squats a bit even when totally empty.   
> One thing I have noticed is that the mast is slid as far it will go  
> aft on it's bolts.  Could I move it forward?
>
> Has anybody added permanent weight up forward?  I have a Yanmar  
> 2GM20F, and tank under the cockpit sole, as well as the port locker  
> containing my house battery bank, even with empty lockers she sits a  
> little bit heavy aft.
> I'm thinking either poured in place concrete(broken up into smaller  
> sections with 3/8$ foam, with a hard plastic layer on top of 1/2"  
> closed cell foam to make it easy to remove if needed, and to protect  
> the hull, or lead(shot in bags).
>
> I'd like to get the bow down a couple inches, it's not the end of  
> the world if I can't but it does bug me a fair bit.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeremy
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