[Public-List] Stern squat.

[j_l_brown]

How were the ingots secured?  I'm a bit cautious of damaging the hull.

With batteries, ice box and holding tank all port, I have empty unused space to starboard, and weight there could possibly help trim the boat fore and aft and side to side as well.
I also have space between the traditional anchor locker bulkhead, and the half bulkhead I added forward.


Lead could be ok too, I was looking at bagged lead shot as one option(no hard edges, like soft weights for divers).
Would it need to be secured, any more than anchor chain is?

Concrete is cheap, less toxic and I could add steel punchings and essentially I'd have concrete in small(30lb) ingots, formed to the hull, isolated from it.
If cost were no object, I'd do the same as the concrete idea, but cast the chunks in bronze.

Maybe I could use a whole pile of galvanized chain (on sale it is cheaper than lead per lb) there instead as spares and ballast.
I suspect it would be noisy though.  







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-------- Original message --------
From: David Tessier <dfjtessier at hotmail.com> 
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To: Alberg 30 List Start thread <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> 
Subject: [Public-List] Stern squat. 
 

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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