I ultimately decided to take a risk a do the latter. Creating a stiffer and more stable boat had major appeal. Not having any CP 16 sailing experience didn't help me in making the decision. What did help me was knowing that I had a whole bunch of lead and a curiosity to see what lowering the center of buoyancy that much would do.
Three hundred pounds of lead is heavy! It took very few brain cells to decide that I should reinforce the keel area with more glass. I layered up a couple of sheets of heavy glass mat and epoxy. In the end I felt a lot more confident about dropping all of that lead in there.
Next was to figure out how to lay the lead in in a balanced way. After some reading and thinking I decided to favor the weight a bit forward. It was a good workout moving the stuff back and forth...like I said, lead is heavy.
I finally decided, pulled the trigger, and poured the cement...no going back now!!!
It's really great coming from a place of projects. My dad is a big tinkerer and always has a few project irons in the fire. Currently he is building a little barn in our backyard and lucky for me he was pouring concrete into Sonotubes and had all the equipment out that I needed. Nice.
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