On 8/30/10 4:18 PM, W1TEF wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:39:03 -0400,
wrote:

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:15:27 -0700 (PDT), jamesgangnc
wrote:

On Aug 30, 12:00 pm, wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:21:18 -0500, 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.

Pulled the access panels.

Where the extra weight came from, nobody knows.

Opps - hit send too early. :)

7.5 gallons of water takes up one cubic foot of space.

109 gallons of water takes up 14.5 cubic feet of space.

14.5 cubic feet is a LOT of space on a small boat.

Even if the foam was open celled (which it is not), the sheer amount
of space required for the weight gain would rule that out.


One cubic foot of lead to make the boat float level... :)