Thanks for the thoughts.
There seemed to be a scribed water line in the hull that we follow for
the boot stripe. This is what I am looking at when I say she doesn't
seem to be on her lines...
Adding weight in the forward section seemed to help on working to
weather, as you say, lifting the stern and not dragging and probably
cutting the waves a little better. I have a great regular crew that
shows up for the fun of racing, each has his station and they work well
together. Our courses are relatively short windward/leeward with
usually four to eight tacks. The beer and pretzels and frequent tacks
tend to keep them in the cockpit except on the downwind when we always
have one on the foredeck and another on the cabin top at the mast.
Yours truly is 200 lbs and the aftermost movable ballast that is badly
placed on this boat at the wheel. Two more in the cockpit representing
320 lbs not much further forward. Leaving maybe one 160 lb. sitting on
the rail even with the main hatch, still isn't sufficient to give the
boat good forward/aft balance. The boat is down by the stern, hence the
reason to load up the forward section with sails, full water bottles,
anchors, holding tank. I'm probably going to add 400 lbs of pigs now,
after the comments, to see if we can offset some of this meat in the stern.
Dave Hoy
WYANOKEE #6295
Camden, Maine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Forget what I said about the IOR stuff before.
Actually, that was probably one of the more interesting and salient points
in this discussion.
My old boat was designed when IOR was at the end of it's (mercifully
short) life span. It really had very little to do with IOR, other than the
fact that Bob Evelyn retained the somewhat narrow stern sections and
slightly pinched transom of IOR boats designed in the HayDay IOR. But
interesting enough, the FO of my boat, who is a well-known and realtively
successful racer in Annap, actually ADDED 200 pounds of lead to the
boat...in the form of loose number 6 shotgun pellets! He basically
reinforced the mast step (notoriously poorly constructed on E 32-2s) and
the keel sump (also dreadfully underbuilt) and then poured in 10 twenty
pound bags of loose
shot. These little bastards would find any available opening to leak out
under the cabin sole and then everytime we'd heel, they'd run out on to
the cabin sole, so that going below in a breeze was like going
roller-skating...really treacherous and plus they'd find their way into
the bilge pumps and generally mock up everything they could.
He added the weight because the boat was too "corky" in the light stuff
and wouldn't track as well as the Frers 36 's and C&C 35's he was racing
against back then.
Also: current thinking in the J35 class is to load the bow up going
downhill in light air...the V-sections in the water forward help the boat
track straighter, less helm required, and less wetted surface dragging
along behind.
SO maybe Dave H. is on to something???
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