Published Hull Weights

I think what this thread tells us is dont believe the hype, if you don't get a certificate weigh what you buy ...

I have calibrated a number of sets of bathroom scales over the years and as long as they are loaded square and static then they are typically very accurate; within 1kg.

This seems to be very much a case of buyer beware ... 

It would be useful if people shared their own measurement here ...

hmm, I think you'd find its discouraged to weigh before your hitch up and drive off from most SMOD manufacturers.... of course, if you really, really insisted that you are absolutely going to weigh your boat before leaving in the pre-sales chat, (thus being a very difficult minority customer  ) then the smarter cookies in the industry would probably ensure the one you were about to pick up was one of the ones bang on weight... especially if you had a rep for a notoriously boring posting streak on a popular internet sailing forum.    

I know of someone who went to collect their new Laser from our friends at Long Buckby.

They examined the hull (as I did when I collected mine many moons ago) and found a  number of unacceptable flaws in the hull including several stress cracks in the gelcoat. Naturally they rejected the boat on the spot and then had a 2 hour row with LPE who eventually went and got another hull from the warehouse and made the pack up again.

Their reason for not wanting to replace it was because that was the hull that was assigned to him and it was a lot of work to assign him a different one....naturally he refused to the point of demanding a refund. They came round to his way of thinking.