One of the only "manufacturers" that I've ever heard of that allowed for
variations in optioning when ballasting was the much maligned Hank
McCuen (Yorktowns)

He took the finished boat, with a hollow keel (no ballast at all),
floated the hull, on it's side to start with, then added lead pigs to
the hollow keel until the boat floated as it was meant to.

Everyone else would have added to the finished hull in addition to the
original ballast. The loose pigs tells me someone added this to trim
the boat. The manufactured would have fastened it down.

My boat floats galley side down. I am moving the water heater outboard
to try to fix this.
Jim

Shawn wrote:
hi all

I have a Halvorsen Island Gypsy 30 displacement cruiser built in 1978. The
boat has the original Ford 120hp engine. I have owned the boat for a couple
of months. Someone has placed about 10 ingots of lead in the bow "v" which
sit unsecured but somewhat wedged and immobile.

The boat sits quite level (if anything with a slight bias toward being low
in the bows - not surprising) and floats within its marked waterline
(apparently fine).

Does anyone know if this is a standard fitting or has someone just had a
bright idea at sometime and should I take it all out? I would have thought
this would have been glassed in if it were deemed necessary by the
manufacturer . . . Kong and Halvorsen.

regards Shawn
"Scallywag"
Brisbane Australia