waterballasting

I've been sailing my home designed and built flood-ballasted motor sailer, the LuLu, since her first launch in 2010 out of Morro bay, CA. She is glass-over-3/4" plywood, 35ft by 8.5 ft, draws 2.7 ft fully settled, has 6.5 ft headroom over 3/4 of her 17 ft cabin, on top of a 1 ft bilge under 1/2...