Just sip water until trim is just right, then STOP. Brad Crain Portland, Oregon Quoting Steve Cramer <cramersec_at_charter.net>: > Easy fix, just refill the containers with river water to maintain your > perfect trim. Or add Genuine Florida Ballast Rocks, which tend to be a > little lighter than the Canadian variety. > > Steve > > Carey Parks wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> In case you (or perhaps some lurkers) are not familiar with the effect of CG >> placement on your paddling experience, here's what happened to me last year. >> We were on a three-day camping excursion down the Peace River here in >> Florida, and we carried our water as well as the normal camping gear. My 14 >> ft Wilderness Systems Cape Horn was loaded to the gills and then some. But >> since it was a flatwater trip I didn't mind. >> >> Day 1 was great, my packing strategy worked. No issues. >> >> Day 2, I drank a couple gallons of water by then, and packed everything >> where it was the day before. The empty water containers were ahead of my >> foot pegs in the cockpit where they had been before, but full of water. This >> day I couldn't get the boat to go straight. Anytime I put any speen on, I >> mean like three mpg or so, the bow would fall off to one side or the other. >> Quite frustrating. I was glad when we stopped for the day. >> >> Day 3, suspecting that I was loaded too heavy aft, and having consumed more >> water, I put what water I had left forward, determined to prevent the >> problem I had the day before. And that I did. I couldn't get the boat to >> turn without a LOT of effort on my part. It was obvious I had too much >> weight forward this time. >> >> I still couldn't tell you by looking when I have the boat loaded properly. >> But I can tell you by paddling it when I've got it wrong! >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Carey > > > -- > Steve Cramer > Athens, GA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 06 2007 - 11:40:45 PST
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