Sealine S28 - List to Starboard (with photo)

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The previous owner had put three whopping big batts on board all on the port side and Honda 240v generator again on the port side. ..... plus a full fuel tank also on the port side.

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and it took you how long to work out what the problem was? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Quite a normal feature for cruisers which don't have the deep ballasted keel common to raggies, and easlily rectified by adding ballast if you cannot shift the internal weights around. You can use anything dense and heavy. I've trimmed my bow down with 1/4 tonne of cast iron scrap right up in the peak under the V-berth where it is out of the way. This was to off-set a heavy dinghy and o/board on davits plus a generator and an additional fridge in the cockpit not in the boat when it was originally built. (Ocean 30). I've also got some pre-stressed lintels (concrete) cut up and placed under the saloon floor to starboard to trim her down, used to have sandbags but these eventually rotted. The original bags plus some iron weights were added by the previous builders off-setting additional weight introduced when a holding tank was added later on in her life.
 
Hi Poltergeist, lovelly looking boat, is it very old?.

Apart from all the excellent help that has come forward to your post :-

Do you have Eberspacher heating on board and have you been using the heater?.
If so, I have seen a boat to list to one side beacuase of the fuel to the Eberspacher is drawn from one tank and not both.
As also was the case on my boat and is so similar to your picture - the fuel was drawn off from the port fuel tank.

The other is that the boat is fully tested and balanced in the factory before departure and would leave there totally level.

If you are local, I am only on the hamble and would be pleased to have a look with you- as having owned 9 Sealines I have a little knowledge. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
I went quickly through the thread, but didn't read anything about the boat history.
I mean, that listing is bad enough to make me think that it couldn't be there when the boat was new.
Something must have happened during her life, methink.
 
i have seen an s28 with aux engine and bracket bracket located in engine bay on the port side, that would add some weight to help out
other useful weight you could add is spare anchor and chain
 
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hi

take a look at mine moored just down from you next week out of the water at the moment for the clean etc.

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I saw your's was gone from her berth the other week - noticed that she was up on blocks as I was driving out the yard. I remember the day well, when I stepped onto your boat. I thought to myself at the time that I could never afford to own something like that .... six weeks later I'd sold my old boat and the rest is history ..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Hope to catch you when you are about sometime! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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Something must have happened during her life, methink.

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Come to think of it, before I'd bought her, she was salvaged from 25 feet of water, after hitting an iceberg in the mouth of the Hamble.

Do you think that might have something to do with it?? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Maybe. Are you sure that you're not carrying around chunks of that iceberg somewhere in the bilge?
In the Hamble average weather, I wouldn't be surprised if it just sat there and didn't melt!

That aside, no decent builder/dealer would dare selling a new boat with such an obvious fault - not before balancing her (possibly in questionable ways, but never mind).
Otoh, I've seen boats where additional equipment installed afterwards (e.g. a generator, or an off-centerline gangway) created that kind of problem, hence the reason for my question.
Was the problem already there when you bought her, in the first place?
 
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we used to use lead shot bags to balance the boats up

[/ QUOTE ]Gulp. Precisely what I meant by questionable ways... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
lovely condition boat by the way.

As you seem to have answered all the obvious issues - sounds daft but try ranging the anchor cable and restowing; that is assuming you have 30m chain or so. I think the list is a little too great to be a simple builders 'natural' stbd list.
 
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Our 2005 S28 has a list to starboard, as can be seen in the photo.

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Has the boat always had the list? However here's a thought. Your picture was taken at what appears to be low tide and fairly far up the Hamble. Looking at how tight all the lines are, could it be that the pontoon is causing the list? In other words the pontoon is higher than the water level and has not dropped to the water level itself thus you have the port side effectively supported by the pontoon while the starboard side is at the actual water level.

I've seen this before when people tie their boats up too tight. Try loosing off the lines a bit and see what happens.
 
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Try loosing off the lines a bit and see what happens.

[/ QUOTE ]Huh? If anything, the listing might get worse, in my simple mind.
The only possible tide-related reason might be if the boat is touching the bottom on port side.
 
Hi, I noticed how tight the mooring lines were straight away, Solitaire could be onto something though. Firstly the tight lines make no allowance for boat movement due
to wash etc.. The list could be down to something under the port side of the boat, which would also account for the lines being so tight. We had a metal wheelybin under our pontoon once, but that is the Thames for you. As the others have said, adjust the trim
with contents of boat, not forgetting the crew.
 
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The only possible tide-related reason might be if the boat is touching the bottom on port side.

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It could be that the pontoon itself is either resting on the mud or sticks on the pile. A lot depends on the depth of water and the state of the tide. There are lots of areas on the Hamble where a boat may still be afloat but the pontoon is resting on the mud thus the pontoon is holding the boat up hence the tight lines.

On very low water springs it can happen where our ribs are berthed.
 
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There are lots of areas on the Hamble where a boat may still be afloat but the pontoon is resting on the mud thus the pontoon is holding the boat up hence the tight lines.

[/ QUOTE ]Yup, understood. But the lines in that pic are keeping the port side from raising further, not the other way round.
The situation you're describing would be plausible with the boat lower than the pontoon, with the lines pulling her up.
 
Nope, wrong way round: those are lines, not sticks.

If the pontoon was stuck down a bit, then that would be lowering the port side, tight lines etc.

Then again, it does look as if the boat is hard up against that middle fender by the post.

dv.
 
My Sunline has a slight list to starboard, but has 3 batteries outside of the starboard engine, and only 1 to port. List is worse when I sit at the helm as this is also on the right. I am going to fit 2 more batteries to port to increase the domestic relience.

However my problem is nothing like as pronounced as yours. I would be amazed if your boat was like this as new, as the first owner would have sought rectification with the dealer. Therefore this would imply that something has changed, so check for largish items that have been fitted since her launch, and see if any of these can be moved.
 
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