Wonky Bavaria 32

[ThomasHome]

When I arrived at my boat this weekend I noticed the mooring lines were very slack, thinking they may have stretched in the high winds, I sorted them out, then saw that on the port side I hade twice as much of the anti fowling showing than on the other side and the boat was leaning over. I had a good look for any water or items that may have been stowed that could cause this to happen and found nothing, I then checked that I had plenty of depth under the keel, and there was.

There are two other identical boats on the same pontoon that looked the same, one of them was more severe than mine and the water line was over the antifowling, slack mooring lines had caused the boat to hit the pontoon and damage the stem.

Opal tell me that the batteries and other item stowed have caused this, but there is plenty of heavy stuff on the other side and is empty of personal Items, it was not like it when I left it two weeks ago.

Does anyone have any ideas? or had a similer problem

 

[jimi]

Several things,
had you tightened the lines such that they were pulling the boat over a bit?
Was it the windage?
Did you check the bilges?
Is the water tank on one side?

 

[Richard_Peevor]

On going down to my boat last week in Chichester I noticed mine and other boat were heeling slightly. I was worried on stepping on board as I thought I'd taken on more than the usual bucket full of rainwater!

On careful checking I found no water but I soon realised it was windage, exacerbated by the Northerly winds compared to the usual.

Hope you find nothing untoward...

Richard

 

[charles_reed]

The new Bavarias are very light and rely considerably on form stability.

When tied up to a pontoon fore and aft in 40-60 knot tramontanes they heel about 15-18 degrees.

If you were down there whilst a cold (hence dense) northerly was blowing you could expect the heel to be graeter than during warmer SW winds of similar windspeed.
An alternative explanation could be that the very action of tightening the lines onto a pontoon below the deck-level of the boat would cause a heel in the direction of the lines.

 

[Aja]

Thomas

Last April I chartered a brand new Bavaria 32 in Palma. The first thing I noticed when approaching the boat was the (considerable) list to starboard. The boat had only done 250 delivery miles - and was almost as if it was out the wrapper. As for you - no water in bilges and no obvious reason for the list.

Even on a calm day sitting stern-to it was obvious. Sailed better on starboard tack too!

Donald

 

[ThomasHome]

Checked the water tank, on the port side, that was full, no water in the bilges and there was no wind to speak of, I never have my mooring line too tight, it was the fact that the other two Bavarias were doing the same that puzzled me.

 

[david_e]

I see quite a few boats that lean over a little, and others that are low in the bow. Discounting heavy items or an accumulation of kit on one side, and no excessive loads on the mooring lines at any point. In the first instance you might look at boat components such the rudder and how it is tied up, is it to one side and is there a tidal flow against it? Are the batteries, heads or galley on one side? Or it could be a combination of a few of these items, together with an uneven layup of the glass fibre that is doing it.

Ask Bavaria direct, see what they think, and is there an owners website?

 

[graham]

Re:Tide or Current?

If more than one boat was leaning and it wasnt the wind could it be tide pushing the keel one way or the other??

 

[ThomasHome]

Re:Tide or Current?

Neither, the marina has a lock.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Sounds lie a bad case of...

...asymmetric hulls. I've heard of asymmetric spinnakers, but this is new.

(actually, it's almost certainly some sort of weight imbalance through fixed or variable kit).