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PostPosted: Aug 28, 2010 9:47 pm    Post subject: diy ballest Reply with quote

i have been try to find ways to weight my boat for years and this way has seemed to work best for me i took some laundry bin with tops and filled them with water with my hose and put the boat in the water it works great and is extremly cheap and when your done jst take some tubing and suck on the tube tell the water flow out freely great and cheap way to weight your boat Shocked
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PostPosted: Aug 29, 2010 5:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have any pics? You must have a ton of jugs in the boat
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PostPosted: Aug 29, 2010 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

classic, need to see these pics
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PostPosted: Aug 29, 2010 1:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ive done htat to, filled some coolers and bins with water, then took an tubing iner tube and put it in the bow then filled it. i also leave alittle bit of water in the hull
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PostPosted: Aug 29, 2010 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

no i only have 5 in my boat they weight filled 250 each 2 in the engine 1 in the ski locker and 2 in the bow works great and if i wanna wakesurf i jst move 3 to the side and 2 in the front Shocked
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PostPosted: Aug 29, 2010 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have any pics? You must have a ton of jugs in the boat
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PostPosted: Sep 02, 2010 12:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hrm, what's "some laundry bin"?
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PostPosted: Sep 03, 2010 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ive done that too - probably 10 years ago. Four 18-gal rubbermaid storage bins. Spent an hour in the middle of the lake with people watching us bail water INTO the boat. Smile
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PostPosted: Sep 03, 2010 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I keep trying this and I just can't it to work. These are the Bin's I have.


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PostPosted: Sep 03, 2010 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hes probabyl using storage bins like this:
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PostPosted: Sep 03, 2010 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe he fills it with water < 32* F ??
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PostPosted: Sep 16, 2010 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

another htinkg ive recently done, is take the tube you use for tubing behind boats, (preferably the ones with the large fill plugs) and then i basically used it just like a fat sack, then i was able to squeeze another in the front of the bow, no wake pics yet, maybe tonight but definetly not with me behind the boat, way to nasty out right now
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PostPosted: Sep 16, 2010 1:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GuitsBoy wrote:
Maybe he fills it with water < 32* F ??


does it weigh the same?? any science people in the house? Razz Razz Razz Razz
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PostPosted: Sep 16, 2010 2:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

actually ice would have less weight per cubic foot, since it expands when frozen
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