I found this out this year myself. I have had no problems at the mooring with drainage in my cockpit. When the boat haulers dropped her in the yard they asked which way the boat drains (fore or aft) I told them to keep it level. They were surprised. My cockpit drains are right in the middle of my cockpit on the outboard ends of the sole. They tilted it just slightly aft so I have standing water in the cockpit now. Not much but enough to be inconvenient. I tried to change the angle a bit with the jack stands but there isn't much you can do at least on my boat. The bottom of the keel is a flat surface and even though it is fairly short (fore to aft) I found that the jack stands won't change the way it sits on the keel blocks. I believe the only way to adjust it is to shim the keel blocks correctly when it is coming off the trailer.
My boat is 33 feet and 10,000 lbs with a fin keel. I just picked up a 40 foot tarp and some wood for a frame. That should take care of these issues. Before anyone feels the need. No I won't tie it off to the lack stands J From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Petar Horvatic via CnC-List Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 12:12 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Stus-List Boat stands and draining deck water while on the stands. Hi all, I have a question on boat stands and aft tilting of the boat while on the hard. I find water drainage on most C&C designs to be horrible. I've tackled the issues many times but this one keeps coming back to haunt me. When the boat is in water, a while back I made drain holes at what appeared to be the lowest point on deck. So when boat is properly loaded and equipped, the deck drains pretty good. Well all that changes once the boat is out of the water as the yard props it so that everything is tilting aft. So now water collects about few feet further aft. Year after year this tilting changes based on how they setup the stands at the time of haulout. No matter what you do (I've drilled pilot holes in aluminum toerail), I always have submerged pulpit stanchions bases. For me these carry a significant load(solar panels, support the wind generator and 15HP outboard on pulpit mount) Well in the winter, ice works the base screws on stanchions and before you know it you get leaks and wet core. I would love to prop the aft stands and lower the forward ones so that the boats sits more level and the water collects where my drain holes are. Has anyone done this or will doing this disturb how the keel sits on the wooden blocks? My thought was to just prop the aft ones but then I realized that they all need to be adjusted slightly. Petar Horvatic Sundowner 76 C&C 38MkII Newport, RI
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