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Aluminum Floor in Lowe 1448 with Yamaha 40/30 Outboard
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<blockquote data-quote="Lil&#039; Blue Rude" data-source="post: 403594" data-attributes="member: 4627"><p>You might want to do a little research on a boats center of gravity. You'll be pretty surprised on how re-positioning weight can effect performance. For example my boat is a 16' 42" with a 60hp short shaft, small battery under the rear bench, seats on the rear bench and two 6 gallon tanks behind the bench. I figured up the boats center of gravity. Came to find out if I would add 75lbs to the first 4' of the boat that would have about the same effect on the center of gravity as adding 300+lbs to the bench. That means a lot more of the boat in the water causing a lot more drag. I'm not saying throw all your weight in the back or vise versa but you can play around with the math and have a idea of where you'd like your weight to be to balance things out. Like richg99 said testing is a sure fire way to see how it will act.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil' Blue Rude, post: 403594, member: 4627"] You might want to do a little research on a boats center of gravity. You'll be pretty surprised on how re-positioning weight can effect performance. For example my boat is a 16' 42" with a 60hp short shaft, small battery under the rear bench, seats on the rear bench and two 6 gallon tanks behind the bench. I figured up the boats center of gravity. Came to find out if I would add 75lbs to the first 4' of the boat that would have about the same effect on the center of gravity as adding 300+lbs to the bench. That means a lot more of the boat in the water causing a lot more drag. I'm not saying throw all your weight in the back or vise versa but you can play around with the math and have a idea of where you'd like your weight to be to balance things out. Like richg99 said testing is a sure fire way to see how it will act. [/QUOTE]
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