Help me understand
I don't get why carrying weight in the ends makes a boat pitch more. It would seem to me that having some weight in the bow would make it less lively and cause it to charge through waves, rather than ride up over them. Kai, my concern with the water bladder under the cockpit is that there is already too much weight in the stern on an H25. My boat squats badly because of the 110 lb Honda hanging off the transom. Add the fuel tanks, and a couple of people in the cockpit and she really squats down. I've never put water in the bladder because I don't want to throw her any further out of trim than she already is. I store one gallon water jugs under the starboard settee along with one group 27 battery. They are counterbalanced by two group 27s under the port settee. I plan to install my central a/c under the vee berth to help bring her down a little. It is currently installed under the cockpit, next to the empty water bladder.
