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Happy, your boat\'s becoming dangerously overloaded
Sorry, the other threads are getting swamped.
I know it's funny haha that happy plans to buy more gear, get trade discount and so on. But for a small boat, now meeting friends with much larger boats with much larger payloads that go to sea, this is actually getting a bit serious. Duncan was quite right to raise this issue.
The Glastron site list just over 500kg as the maximum payload. With people aboard, you plan to have over 220 kg. That's almost half the maximum. Now add outboard, dinghy, oars, generators and lots lot more - and yours is the firtst boat I have heard of that has become more and more dangerous the more safety equipment you plan to stash on it. The 500kg is a limit, not a target.
Separately, the organisation of all the kit is beghinning to impinge on ordinary safety. Your vhf didn't work cos of the fishfinder. You don't need a fishfinder, you might need vhf. So despite all that money on chandlery, you didn't have use of the decent vhf in the solent, but did have a toaster and internet access.
You should go through your inventory and weigh the lot, discarding stuff you really don't need. I agree that it's all good fun, but do not want you sinking, which you risk in heavier seas than most 20 footers will see and with more kit than a circumnavigator. The dinghy for example, has a potential safety aspect, though not if it's carried uninflated. The outboard can't get you home. And so on.
We all go a bit ott in some departments of kit (fishing, diving etc) but not in all of them, as you seem to plan. I hear your son is a diver, and jeez that stuff weighs a lot.
There, said my piece. All imho, and with good attitude and intentions.
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Sorry, the other threads are getting swamped.
I know it's funny haha that happy plans to buy more gear, get trade discount and so on. But for a small boat, now meeting friends with much larger boats with much larger payloads that go to sea, this is actually getting a bit serious. Duncan was quite right to raise this issue.
The Glastron site list just over 500kg as the maximum payload. With people aboard, you plan to have over 220 kg. That's almost half the maximum. Now add outboard, dinghy, oars, generators and lots lot more - and yours is the firtst boat I have heard of that has become more and more dangerous the more safety equipment you plan to stash on it. The 500kg is a limit, not a target.
Separately, the organisation of all the kit is beghinning to impinge on ordinary safety. Your vhf didn't work cos of the fishfinder. You don't need a fishfinder, you might need vhf. So despite all that money on chandlery, you didn't have use of the decent vhf in the solent, but did have a toaster and internet access.
You should go through your inventory and weigh the lot, discarding stuff you really don't need. I agree that it's all good fun, but do not want you sinking, which you risk in heavier seas than most 20 footers will see and with more kit than a circumnavigator. The dinghy for example, has a potential safety aspect, though not if it's carried uninflated. The outboard can't get you home. And so on.
We all go a bit ott in some departments of kit (fishing, diving etc) but not in all of them, as you seem to plan. I hear your son is a diver, and jeez that stuff weighs a lot.
There, said my piece. All imho, and with good attitude and intentions.
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