Question About Weight

[Bash]

Three rodes. The lengths of chain, respectively, are: 450 + 300 + 200 feet, for a total of 950' of chain. 3/8ths inch chain averages around 1.7 lbs per foot. That's 1,530 pounds of chain in a 33' boat. Switching to metric, THAT'S ALMOST 700 KILOS OF CHAIN IN A 3,500 KILO BOAT.

Ahem. Perhaps the word "goofy" wasn't strong enough.

[Bash]

and let's not forget the fact that the PO had 1,530 lbs of chain on a boat without a windlass.

[David M]

Good choice, weight kills performance.

[Weyalan]

There is prudence, and then there is over the top. I think what you have described goes beyond prudent, well into the realms of over the top.

[Solitude]

Originally Posted by johnar

I was cleaning out the chain locker and under the floor of it there was another locker than i found 450' of chain and taking this all off the boat i see the water line changed by 8 " , my question is should i put the weight back in or remover it?



Thank you all.

Dutch

I'll bet it looked better. What was the PO trying to do sink it? Did he repaint the bootstripe 8 inches higher?? LOL