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Bill Combs (ttursine@gnt.net)
Thu, 22 Oct 98 20:42:13 -0500


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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>Mmmmm 1500 bls?
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>Now that would be: 10 people @ 150 lbs each or 5 people at 300 lbs each or
>20 people at 75 lbs each .. or 3 humans at 200 lbs each eight dogs at
>100 lbs each and 5 BIG cats at 20 lbs each ... you get the picture Well
>then again WE don't what the heck were you carrying? .. The Dallas
>Cowboy Cheerleaders? NOT

Just the essentials ... only one cheerleader. And one dog. And one son.
And
a *lot* of food and water. And ...

A partial description came out in the referenced (sigh, "partial")
tale-of-
the-cruise, text and MS word versions of which can be found at
ftp://ftp.gnt.net/users/ttursine

Truthfully, I think the 1500-1700 lb estimate is low, but despite its
basis in data, there are a lot of assumptions involved. It all started
when I was loaded for a singlehanded Keys cruise and took the opportunity
to visit my local public scale. The whole rig weighed in at 2330 pounds,
sans outboard and gas.

Deducting 200 pounds for the trailer (I think published number is 175)
and adding 550 lbs for three people and dog yields 2680. Adding outboard
(60) and gas (70) and an additional water jug (20) gets us up to 2830
lbs. If the dry weight is *really* 1225 lbs (I suspect more), that's a
load of close-as-damnit to 1600 lbs. I figure we changed the waterline by
6 to 7 inches.

As to where the weight comes from: ??? Someday I'll try to figure it
out. Let's see:
100 lbs water
80 gas & oil
200 canned food
30 dry food
50 anchor rodes & lines (900')
40 anchor chain (60')
30 anchors (4)
120 batteries (3) - a wild guess
70 dinghy & dinghy outboard

Hmmm, 720 lbs. Adding back the people and outboard (to yield 1330) leaves
270 lbs for everything else. Having lifted "everyhting else" a bunch of
times, I think that's low.

Amazing what these things will carry.

Regards,
Bill Combs
WWP 19 #439 (August 1987)
"Ursa Minor"
Fort Walton Beach FL
ttursine@gnt.net