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Should I Upgrade or Update My Engine?
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"Secular Humorist" wrote in message ... On 8/30/10 1:18 PM, wrote: I often think the published weight is before they put in any of the creature comforts like seats and consoles, just what is below the deck. Might be, hasn't been my experience. I buy the brand trailer I like from a dealer in Virginia Beach and tow it home. With the current trailer, the traffic was very light on the way home so I pulled into a truck weigh station and asked if the operator would weigh my boat trailer. I unhitched it, he weighed it. It was within 25 pounds of what the manufacturer said it would weigh. Last year, I pulled into the same weigh station with the boat. It was within 100 pounds of what Parker said it would weigh with engine, batteries, some gear and a half tank of fuel, less the weight of the trailer. If BS was music....you'd be a brass band! |
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"Secular Humanist" wrote in message
... In article , says... On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:13:53 -0400, I am Tosk wrote: In article , says... 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. There is always the possibility the boat manufacturers play loose and fast with the weight, the way auto manufacturers play with gas mileage... Yes, even your beloved Ranger, what are they supposed to tell you, "we lied". In the words of the immortal spaceman, "~snerk~"! Oh no - that's not the case at all. They were right up front that the specs could vary depending on any one particular boat. It was the 870 lbs that floored them. Even if you took worst case scenario manufacturing excess, extra ply on the hull/transom/etc., it still didn't work out to 870 lbs. I talked to their engineers about it. We came up with a plan, opened the access panels, tilted the boat, drain open - nada. Hull dry as a bone. Still don't know where the weight came from. Not that it matters. :) With my Parker, they knew just how much weight in gear, fuel, etc. that I would be adding and factored that into the weight and were right on! That is after they cut a big chunk out of the transom to make their numbers work. -- I'm the real Harry, and I post from a Mac, as virtually everyone knows. If a post is attributed to me, and it isn't from a Mac, it's from an ID spoofer who hasn't the balls to post with his own ID. |
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says... "Secular Humanist" wrote in message ... In article , says... On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:13:53 -0400, I am Tosk wrote: In article , says... 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. There is always the possibility the boat manufacturers play loose and fast with the weight, the way auto manufacturers play with gas mileage... Yes, even your beloved Ranger, what are they supposed to tell you, "we lied". In the words of the immortal spaceman, "~snerk~"! Oh no - that's not the case at all. They were right up front that the specs could vary depending on any one particular boat. It was the 870 lbs that floored them. Even if you took worst case scenario manufacturing excess, extra ply on the hull/transom/etc., it still didn't work out to 870 lbs. I talked to their engineers about it. We came up with a plan, opened the access panels, tilted the boat, drain open - nada. Hull dry as a bone. Still don't know where the weight came from. Not that it matters. :) With my Parker, they knew just how much weight in gear, fuel, etc. that I would be adding and factored that into the weight and were right on! That is after they cut a big chunk out of the transom to make their numbers work. Hey, I've told you dumfochs before, in a following sea, that cutout won't let any more water aboard than one that isn't cut out. I know that it's against physical laws, but damn it, that's just too bad. Screw physics. |
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