Hunter 23.5 transom drag

[23-5sailor]

Hello All. I have a 93 hunter 23.5 with sugarscoop transom. I noticed my transom drags. I would have thought it should be out of the water, so the water had an easy exit, but it is not. I'd say the transom is 2" or so under water. I'm not a designer, but that looks wrong to me. I think I may need more weight up front, but it's only a guess.

Can someone with a 23.5 let me know what's going on here?

Chris Curtis

 

[peptobysmol]

'85 23

my cockpit drain empties below water level as well. I think this is it's "design" HTH.

 

[23-5sailor]

I think I must have done a lousy job of describing my problem. I'm not sure how it relates to cockpit drains (my aft is open, so it is the drain). At the back of my boat, the transom is in the water, not out of the water. Most (all that I can think of other than a MacGregor 26) sailboats have the transom's out of the water, they do NOT drag. I'm wondering if other Hunter 23.5 owners have dragging transoms, or not?

Chris Curtis

 

[Scubajeep]

My 1996 Hunter 23.5's transoms is our of the water.... well by about 1 inch when sitting at the dock and no-one in it. Once Someone is in the boat the "transom lip" is just under the water.

When the boat is healing over water "flows" into the area where the motor mount is located.

Is this normal??? I dont know.... just as long as the boat keeps sailing Im happy

Todd H

 

[23-5sailor]

This sounds like my boat, with the water flowing into the transom lip, and into the motor well when heeled to starboard. Thanks for your input.

 

[BrianW]

On my H26, the big sister of the 23.5, the bottom inch of the aluminum rudder head sat into the water causing severe corrosion in salt water. The opening of the transom outboard compartment, however, was not in the water. I cleaned out all of my accumulated junk from my stern berth and that helped a lot. I then added about 100 pounds of weight in the forward cabin compartment. I used empty 2-gallon kitty litter containers full of dry sand for the ballast. It did the trick in trimming her up. BrianW

 

[George H260]

I think this is typical of this type stern design. What you describe for your H23.5 is exactly what my H260 does.

Of course more weight in the stern will make her squat a little more.

 

[s sauer]

The fastest trim condition on our 28.5 is for the water to flow off the edge of the heeled transom while sailing; you can adjust crew weight fore and aft to accomplish this.
However, while motoring at speed, the transom ends up a couple inches below water.

Thinking about of where the driving forces are applied; sailing or motoring, this seems to make sense.