24 Apr
2003
24 Apr
'03
8:35 a.m.
Hi Steve, That is a nice place for more ballast, but I'm afraid that you will find that it is too far aft, causing the boat to be down at the stern when you are sitting in the cockpit. If you add weight there, you'd also have to add weight in the forward compartment to keep the M15 on it's lines. My thought would be to add removable ballast as a tryout in that keel cavity (old sash weights?). If it causes too much of a trim problem, then you can always remove it again. Don't pour concrete and then find that it doesn't work as anticipated. Then you really have a problem! Connie