Hunter Horizon 273 with a list to port

[sharmajm]

I have a Horizon 273 and am very happy with her.

The only problem that niggles me is that at rest, she has a slight list to port. I have looked at other another boat of the same type and they have it too.

I put it down to the fact that the cockpit locker is on the port side as well as the second battery and fuel tank.

I am at a loss to think of what I can shift to starboard to balance the boat.

Anyone found the solution?

 

[Seajet]

If you carry much water, could you put the tank to starboard ?

Ditto any tinned food, tools...

My boat type originally had the engine stowage & galley on the port side, when I questioned it the salesman told me ' it's so one knows which side she'll settle on when drying out '.

We didn't buy that so when fitting ours out put the water tank and some extra lockers to starboard; having the cockpit locker for all the fenders, lines etc & kedge when carried all to starboard helps, though the water tank hardly gets used for weekend trips nowadays, I just use a big bottle of mineral water.

 

[Concerto]

Your first job would be to see if the mast is upright on the boat. Take the main halyard and get it tensioned to just touch the deck at the shrouds and check the length is identical on the other side. A leaning mast can affect the list on a boay, both visually and weight wise.

Then as Seajet suggests it a question of moving weight across the boat. Water carriers are useful to see how much weight needs to be moved. In the past some people would add weights as far outboard as possible. The only alternative is live with the slight list.

 

[niccapotamus]

my boat came with a load of chain in the stbd underberth lockers, plus the kedge. I moved them then found out why they were there - balances up the locker, fuel tanks and batteries (albeit not perfectly). The alternative seems to be a major alteration, if not impossible to get the battery bank better sited as the other side is taken up by a quarterberth

 

[Lakesailor]

I had a friend who had heating fitted to his 26 ft yacht. Similar to you his boat developed a list as the batteries, gas and lockers were all on the port side. He managed to just about correct it by moving the batteries to underneath the berth on the starboard side, beneath the cockpit.

 

[sharmajm]

Many thanks for your responses, I will try a few of these. I do have an Eberspächer heater in the locker and a kedge anchor so I will try and negotiate some storage on the starboard side for the anchor and chain.