Petar:
As others have stated, there is no need to drill holes through your
toerail(s) to allow water on the deck to drain overboard.....I simply
tie a piece of soft 1/4' rope to the inside of the toerail with a few
inches lying on the deck where the water pools and hang the outer end
outside the toerail a few inches below it.....it acts as a 'wick' and
removed the water lying on the deck.
By 'wicking' the water off the deck by rope or sponge, it doesn't really
matter how the boat is sitting on the hard. If your boat is not covered
in the winter, I think it is important to ensure your cockpit scuppers
drain as they should and water is not pooling on the cockpit sole.
I would caution you about how your boat sits on its keel. I would
rather have more of the weight on the forward part of the keel than the
aft end.....at least that's the way my keel is shaped....the front of my
keel is approx. 4" thick whereas the very aft end might be 1/2" (I
haven't actually measured, just a guess).
I don't use jackstands .....I use a cradle with adjustable pads and
front bunk and I can tilt my boat in any direction I choose. When it is
hauled, I have a hose in the cockpit and when the water drains as it
should, that is where I feel the keel is sitting properly on its wooden
block underneath.
Everyone does something differently.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2014/12/22 1:12 PM, Petar Horvatic via CnC-List wrotely
Hi all, I have a question on boat stands and aft tilting of the boat
while on the hard.
I find water drainage on most C&C designs to be horrible. I’ve tackled
the issues many times but this one keeps coming back to haunt me.
When the boat is in water, a while back I made drain holes at what
appeared to be the lowest point on deck. So when boat is properly
loaded and equipped, the deck drains pretty good.
Well all that changes once the boat is out of the water as the yard
props it so that everything is tilting aft. So now water collects
about few feet further aft. Year after year this tilting changes
based on how they setup the stands at the time of haulout. No matter
what you do (I’ve drilled pilot holes in aluminum toerail), I always
have submerged pulpit stanchions bases. For me these carry a
significant load(solar panels, support the wind generator and 15HP
outboard on pulpit mount) Well in the winter, ice works the base
screws on stanchions and before you know it you get leaks and wet core.
I would love to prop the aft stands and lower the forward ones so that
the boats sits more level and the water collects where my drain holes
are. Has anyone done this or will doing this disturb how the keel
sits on the wooden blocks?
My thought was to just prop the aft ones but then I realized that they
all need to be adjusted slightly.
Petar Horvatic
Sundowner
76 C&C 38MkII
Newport, RI
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