Corribee Loading Capability

[Corto]

Hi everybody, i would like to know if any Corribee owners or ex-owner knows the average loading capacity that this little boat has. Just to understand how much weight I can carry around during my sailing trips. Many Thanks from Tuscany

 

[Tranona]

There is no "official" weight. The amount you can carry is severely restricted by the size of the boat, so unless you are transporting gold or lead it is unlikely you will ever sink it. You will however notice some loss in performance and a lowering of the boat in the water if you carry a lot of extra weight.

 

[Corribee Boy]

You'll also notice that your feet get wet in the cockpit, because the sole will be below water level!

Seriously, the boat was optimistically designed to carry four people, so about 200Kg. If you've got an engine, anchor, gas bottle, tins of beans, warps and fenders, and all the 101 other bits and pieces that a normal boat has, then you're well on your way to using up that allowance and the boat will start getting low on her marks and more sluggish to sail - but how much stuff are you planning to take? Roger Taylor seemed to manage quite well.

 

[Tranona]

Seriously, the boat was optimistically designed to carry four people, so about 200Kg.

Very light people! Average adults 75kg+. Cruising gear would add another 200kg at least.

 

[Seajet]

Corto,

I take it you already have a Corribee ?

If so you will be well aware that she already has less than sparkling ( but steady ) performance and rather low freeboard.

I would think the golden rule of all boats applies even more to her, only add weight if it is absolutely essential, ie ground tackle and water; depending on what sort of voyages you plan, light dried food requiring rehydration - as small racers like the Mini Transat competitors use - may be an idea.

The Mini Transat Forum is just along, keep scrolling down from this one, past the ' Ships ' and ' Pub /Restaurant Guide ' etc.

Please don't think me rude and shooing you away, - plenty of people here can help -but these Mini Transat folk know all there is on keeping a small boat light, loads etc.

Have Fun !

 

[Corribee Boy]

Very light people! Average adults 75kg+. Cruising gear would add another 200kg at least.

Looking at the original brochure, I think they were all four children, or, possibly, hobbits, so I was being a bit conservative. I weigh less than 60kg, and still get the cockpit sole awash when single-handed. The inboard doesn't help (unless I'm using it to overtake an Anderson)

 

[Seajet]

I take it you have an RB-211 inboard then ? No wonder you have the cockpit sole awash !

In reality, I find with 2-3 large adults my cockpit sole is rather damp; I fitted a ' hit & miss ' style shutter working on a slot to cover or uncover the drains into the outboard well, I realise the Corribee doesn't have a well but maybe something like a diverter valve - or plain old seacocks with levers - could be arranged if it's a bother ?

 

[Corto]

Thanks a lot to all of you. I own my Corribee since four years, I bought it in The Netherlands and I sailed it back to Italy through canals... The original idea was the Black Sea route, but life gets in the way and I choose the short way. Now I'm in Tuscany, where I live, and planning to cruise in the Med, just short trips, we are two plus a baby.
For sure I will ck the Mini Transat Forum, thanks again for your usefull suggestions.

 

[oldharry]

Looking at the original brochure, I think they were all four children, or, possibly, hobbits, so I was being a bit conservative.

John, Susan, Titty and Roger maybe?

 

[Seajet]

Corto,

before you go - I hope - what do you call short trips ?

If a daysail or a day and a night, that's very different, I thought you were going for weeks !

The Mini Transat people will still have good iinfo' on light weight food etc, and I expect some are ex-Corribee sailors; but for normal day hops things are very different, how long do you think a ' normal ' trip would take you ?

 

[Corto]

My idea of short trip is about two weeks... more or less.

 

[Seajet]

John, Susan, Titty and Roger maybe?

OldHarry,

I have the original ( Newbridge ) Corribee brochure here; all I can say is that all 4 must have been on very good terms; when I met 2 big blokes sailing a Corribee as they came alongside I had the unusual experience of looking directly down on a boat, in the nicest possible sense !

 

[Seajet]

My idea of short trip is about two weeks... more or less.

Corto,

I have no experience of sailors' food in Italy, I have heard for tourists it is a very expensive place to eat but I don't know how that affects local sailors !

I would hope you could avoid my previous Mini Transat idea of freeze dried food; in my case around the Southern UK - Northern France, I would just carry ' emergency supplies ' in case I could not reach shore for reasons of weather etc and hope to visit the better places to eat - or buy - food as the locals do.

I would certainly carry plenty of - in my case - tins of baked beans, tinned curry, tinned chilli, tinned stew, soups - some inc ' cup-a-soups, pasta, bread, crackers, ' Pot Noodles ' or similar and ' self heating meals* ' ( * See Amazon ) - the last 2 for rough weather.

A Corribee should not be overloaded carrying that stuff for one, plus water.

 

[Corto]

Thanks a lot for your help Seajet. Compliment for the Anderson, its a really nice boat. Buon Vento

 

[Seajet]

Buon Vento, Corto !

 

[Blueboatman]

Here you go. its a Corribee and after a few years cruising, it was heavy but still sailed well and far less tippy when you wandered the side decks
Theres a 35lb cqr, a 100l water bladder tank, more anchors, dinghy and stuff, stuff, more stuff, all squirelled away in that deceptively large hull. even got a proper wee double bed in there when the time came..

Enjoy your cruising!

Boat and trailer when weighed came to just shy of 4000lb.
The bare boat comes in at 2000lb as built, or just shy of one tonne metric, I believe.
My car had a small block V8 which was OK in thrid rgear up anbd down the US eastern seaboard ( greta way to see a country in a small boat in one summer...) but struggled mightily up some of the hills in Maine,@ 7mpg (US gallons) but thats not the point..

 

[Spirit of Glenans]

Corto,





I would certainly carry plenty of - in my case - tins of baked beans, tinned curry, tinned chilli, tinned stew, soups - some inc ' cup-a-soups, pasta, bread, crackers, ' Pot Noodles ' or similar and ' self heating meals* ' ( * See Amazon ) - the last 2 for rough weather.

From what I have observed of my Italian friends, they would not regard any of those items as actual food.

 

[Corto]

From what I have observed of my Italian friends, they would not regard any of those items as actual food.

ah ah ah... usually we travel with a legh of prosciutto, tons of pasta, brick hoven for pizza (we like the home made one) and a barrel of red wine. And if we get too cramped we leave ashore the anchor or the sails rather than food!... not completely a joke if you had the chance to travel around the italian coastline!

 

[rob2]

The trouble with dry food is that the water you have to carry to rehydrate it makes the total load greater than fresh food - and i know which i'd rather eat. For those of us who don't live in Italy, the food is a significant reason for visiting! I'd rather carry a week's supply of food and enough water for two days, you can usually top up the tank easier than shopping for food. In the Med no-one sails for two weeks without going ashore - apart from the weird live-aboard Brits who anchor for weeks at a time.

Rob.

P.S. Now scrutinizing the forecabin for installation of a brick oven... Mmm, pizza.

 

[Corribee Boy]

I bet you wish you'd kept the 6mm U-bolts for your rigging, rather than going up to those heavy 8mm A bolts. The extra weight is sure to cost you at least half a bottle of something good to drink