Hey guys, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Are your plans to race, circumnavigate the world or go out and have some fun. Here are a few ideas good or bad but at the end of the day should get you out on the water.
IF you are considering the boat a total loss anyway, what can it hurt.
1. At the end of the day so what if it leaks.... Is the tank emptying out total, or just enough water to make a mess leaking into the bilge? If it is a reasonable amount just enjoy the boat until you can't anymore.
2. Do you trailer the boat? IF not, or even if you do cut a hole in the top of the tank where the vent is and fill it with weight. Cement, rocks, lead, mother-in-laws, whatever you have for dead weight. You may not have to put a full 1500lbs in but maybe enough to get the leak tamed.
Good luck on whatever the outcome and I look forward to following this link.
OK I'm gonna open up a big ol can of worms on this one !!!!
I've owned two hunter water ballast boats and my biggest fear is a leak in the ballast tank....most anything else I could repair........
lets just say for arguments sake you own one of the hunter water ballast boats and the unthinkable happens and the
ballast tank is compromised and you don't think there is any way to repair it. The boat would be pretty much a write off anyway and like ronkS2 said why not just add ballast. So how could you add ballast in the bottom of the tank and make it a permanent ballast like the old hunter 22 had. How could you get in there to do it and what to use for ballast etc...
Look I'm NOT thinking of doing this I'm just speaking worst case scenero and what could be your options...hypothetically etc..... friendly discussion....
Yes I know the trailer is not designed to handle the extra weight, but trailers could be beefed up to handle it. Heck as they came from the factory the trailers really aren't beefy enough to handle the boat as they come. H23.5 in particular as a prime example....(I used to own one and the trailer is marginal at best)
they used to haul the H22 and later the H23 wing keel around on a trailer so it's just a matter of making the trailer be able to handle the weight.
OK Go........(dodging bullets)