Changing weight of "standard" person

[Thunderhead19]

With 65 percent of americans over the age of twenty being overweight or obese, should I be expecting the average person to weigh 250lbs?

[jetboatjill]

We fully restored a 1971 Sidewinder jet boat and now the back end of the boat sits too low in the water with water rushing in the wet exhaust pipes! We are going to have to readjust the balance & weight of our boat. In order to adjust the weight of the boat, we're going to have to ADD weight to our boat to the bow of the boat to raise the stern. We were not aware that balance and weight of the boat including passengers played such an important role, but we know now!!!
I would say the average weight of Americans is 200 pounds these days!!!! Beware of "MAN OVER BOARD"!!!!!

[icetreader]

Here are the full statistics:
http://www.halls.md/chart/height-weight.htm

As for boats, I think you want to take into consideration numbers that are above the average, just in case.

Yoav

[mackid068]

Arrr...amerrrricans arrrr fat...or tend to be. But still, I've found that people who own boats that are nice"ish" tend to not be huge. Still, use the average weight of 180 lbs.

[cyclops]

I think the word, AVERAGE, would include everybody from a infant to overweight adult, male and female. That is my version of average.

[PowerTech]

I wish they would be more realistic with that.don't forget about the dive tank and the lead belt the gallon of water the 12 pack the sub sandwich."It ran good at the boat show"

[mackid068]

Ah. Fine. Try 160 lbs. Most infants do not SCUBA dive.

[PowerTech]

I geus your right about infants not scuba diving.lets say you want to bring the rats along for the ride any way.the dieper bag the milk bottels in the cooler pouch the baby carier and most importantly the old lady who could of bounced rite back after the birth or could be a whale :D O yea and the extra beer needed for dad on such a outing ;)

[cyclops]

Thanks for the laughs, Power Tech.