Chuck You are one of my sage sailing heros! Your wordly explanation and link to www.boatstanda.com is very helpful.
The pads are on the bulkheads. We are railway and cradle mining car bound....so boatstands are for warm far off places... My revised plan is to set the foreword pads as a best guess for the keel contact to be midpoint with clearance under the keel tail as well as under the keel forefoot. The mid and aft pads will be about an inch off the hull as boat settles. Just out of the water we have an A frame hoist to pull masts. We stop there, adjust pads, power wash clean the bottom and pull the mast. Mast up can not go under the A frame hoist so all masts have always come down. The hoist lifts from the forward side of the mast. Double and triple rigs have mast sling challenges LOL which can only resolved with bow deck cows... Don Viking. 34 Life Anchored at Turnbull Island Hoping the front REALLY does back the winds to NE ... as they pickup to 25 knots and rain BUT tidy was calm and sunny 5 knots with a million stars now as we are a dark sky place > On Sep 28, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Chuck S <cscheaf...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Correction, Brownell stands > > > From: "cscheaffer" <cscheaf...@comcast.net> > To: "D Harben" <sailadventu...@rogers.com>, "CNC boat owners, cnc-list" > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 9:10:45 PM > Subject: Re: Stus-List Viking 34 cradle keel and pad weight distribution? > > Read somewhere 90% of boat weight should be on the keel. That leaves 10% on > the stands, My boat weights 12000# so with 6 stands, they are to hold 1200# > or 200# each. I place the stands under ribs and bulkheads, so their is no > flex or oil canning. I follow the technique explained by Brunel on their > website: > > http://www.boatstands.com/ > > Hopefully your cradle considered bulkhead locations. If not, use bigger pads. > > FYI, I prefer portable stands and set one side snug w the pads one hand down > from the waterline. I place a square piece of carpet between the pad and the > hull. Then I place the other side stands a little lower, put the chains on > as snug as I can, then pull the low side stands out until the chain is very > tight, and run the pads up tight against the hull so they are also one hand > down from the waterline. When I paint the bottom, I move the stands one pair > at a time, scrub and paint, move em back and launch with the whole hull > painted, no touch up needed, except the very bottom of the keel where it sat > on blocks. > > Chuck > Resolute > 1990 C&C 34R > Broad Creek, Magothy River, Md > > From: "CNC boat owners, cnc-list" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > To: "CNC boat owners, cnc-list" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 11:11:30 AM > Subject: Stus-List Viking 34 cradle keel and pad weight distribution? > > Hi > I have tested my new cradle on our railway with great success. I will shift > the keel stop a bit aft and narrow the keel guides. > > The question from the sage wise peanut gallery was how much of the boat > weight can rest on keel? > > Don > Anchored at Turnbull Island North Channel > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of page > at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > >
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