I14 Weights

Originally posted by Andrewst As the other member of the crew I know the boat is heavy as it is a converted penultimate. Its measurement certificate shows it has been weighted as a penultimate so would be overweight. We are purly interessted in TASA events so remeasuring may not be an issue. There is a cover to the daggerboard slot so will have a look there.

 

But surely sailing a boat that is underweight is against tasa rules ?? Otherwise the handicap would have to be adjusted

You will be lucky if you get a penultimate 14 down to the current rules (74.25kg) even if you do the boat would not be competitive to the current handicap.

Strictly speaking you should have the boat re-weighed by a 14 measurer.

If you have not allready found your lead, I would expect it has allready been removed probably when it was converted to the new rules, and not remeasured at that time.  

You could always go to your local tool hire shop and hire a metal detector for the afternoon to locate the lead.

but  surely a metal detector will not have the pin point accuracy your looking for as you boat (esp. a 14) is covered with metal fixings.....

Or just not detect obviously metal parts on the boat, if they are causing that much difficulty with the scanner, remove them, then scan the bear hull. If you are going to cut chunks out of a hull to remove lead, removing fittings isn't that difficult a job in comparison.