Hi All,
Hope you are all enjoying the Summer despite the mixed weather. Not getting far North on the Lancaster Canal at the moment, based at Garstang and can't get far past Lancaster due to the leak near the Lune Aqueduct. Anyway, a bit of advice please. I have a 40 foot JD hull self build completed in Jun 09. Since buying the boat in Aug 13 on a few occasions when passing other boats going in the opposite direction, I get this slight tipping to port. It's worse when I'm on a narrow stretch and I tend to slow down to tick over to assist. Of course not everyone coming the other way does. It's worse when you meet a large widebeam!! (there's a few trip boats on the Lancaster,) tipped about 30 degrees to port on one occasion! Again if they slow considerably, tipping is only slight.
I try to keep the water tank (bow) between half & full (150 gall when full), so a bit more weight there, not sure if that helps? Fuel tank (40 gall - stern) is full most of the time. Could that be the problem, too much weight at the stern? All the correct Certificates of Conformity etc etc were issued at time of build.
Chatting with other local users they reckon that other boats are "stealing" the water, especially when there isn't a lot of depth and worse still if it's a widebeam. Guess it's a case of slowing down even more!!
Any ideas / comments would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
Nb Smudger.