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Default Should I Upgrade or Update My Engine?

On Aug 30, 12:00*pm, W1TEF wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:21:18 -0500, Jim wrote:
Best advice you got so far was to weigh the boat to see if the foam is
waterlogged.


I don't know if you remember Jim, but I found out that my Ranger bay
boat is about 870 lbs over published weight putting the whole rig
right on the edge of trailer capacity - 4,980 lbs for a 5,000 lb
trailer.

The foam isn't waterlogged. I called Ranger about it and they didn't
have an explanation either. *

I got to thinking about it. *A gallon of water weighs 8 lbs. *To have
870 lbs of extra water weight, the boat would have to hold 109 gals of
water.

That's a lot of cubic feet of water to have in foam on a 20 foot boat.


How do you know the foam isn't waterlogged? Is all the space between
your floor and the hull accessible? Case it's not on most boats.