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On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:13:53 -0400, I am Tosk
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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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