boat listing to port???

I have a Fletcher Arrowsprint 129 speedboat (13ft long) with a Johnson 50 (and doel fins) on the back, I sit on the starboard side and my wife who's lighter than me sits on the port side. At planing speeds the boat leans to the port side quite a lot.
i cannot work out why?
Any ideas please?

 

Weight

How did you get a woman to undisclose her weight?

 

lol, she says she is 9 stone, I am 14 stone!

 

Listing

This issue has been addressed on the forum before if i remember correctly. I'm no powerboat expert and did not put much attention to it.

The forum search function is not very good, better use google like:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:www.boatdesign.net boat listing&btnG=Google Search

 

Excuse my ignorance my Brit friends, how many pounds is a stone?

Take care.

Tim

 

Checked it myself. Fourteen pounds. Later.

Tim

 

Boat listing to port

Here you go Tim my friend...Only someone as ancient as I would remember:

16 ounces (oz) to the pound (lb);
14 (lbs) to the stone (stn);
8 (stn) to the hundredweight (cwt);
20 (cwt) to the ton.....


Errr 4 farthings to a penny; two halfpennies to a penny; 240 pennies to the pound sterling; 12 pennies to a shilling; 20 shillings to a pound sterling; 21 shillings to a guinea....

Do you want me to go on to distances...inches and such...? (The bits about chains and furlongs can prove quite invigorating).

Drones on, and on,and on.....

PS rcflyers - try swapping places.

 

To much information. Information overload. Danger Will Robinson, Danger!!!

To tell the truth, the simplicity of the metric system, I find rather dull.

Have a good one Berg. Think I'm checking out.

Tim

 

Sorry. Thought I was on the drivle thread. I knew that thread would mess me up.

Tim

 

As it would appear I am the only sensible one here able to answer this difficult question I shall proceed.

Firtsly your little Fletcher will be quite susceptable to wieght distrubution.

Secondly the torque from the engine is having a tendancy to twist the boat, especially as it is a deep vee.

Looking at the boat from the back you will see that the prop turns clockwise (Right hand) the torque from this will try to turn anticlockwise, (Port).

 

Boat listing to port

Dammit - someone's using Frosty's name to reply. But whoever you are...I think you've hit the right answer. Spot on. It makes perfect sense.

 

Ha Ha--- that made me laugh did that. Incredibly amuzing.

I think some one is using Berglias name also to make funny jokes ---not a bit like the reall berglia.

 

I trimmed the outboard out one notch and it was fine today - ran nice and level!

The steering is quite a bit harder to turn to port than to starboard, which way do I need to rotate the engines trim tab to balance it up a bit?

Is it possible to remove an inner teleflex steering cable to clean and lubricate it?
thanks.