17ft mckee

[Benny1963]

the mckee crafts are full of foam my boat is a 1979
its very light in the water and was garage kept or cover its whole life
how can i tell if im saturated its totaly sealed pumped in from two large holes at factory do i need to weigh the boat and if so were do i find the dry weight of my boat,and will i have to weigh my trailer seperate .
and were could i do this ,also if it has some wet foam can they be dried .
ive seen some wahler post on it but cant find link

 

[mthieme]

Re: 17ft mckee

I assume she is open like a Whaler?...Can you pick up the front?

 

[Benny1963]

Re: 17ft mckee

yes it not hard to haul around by hand on trailer
by hand i can pickup front boat doesnt seam haevy it drafts about 8 inches
but i also am running a 1983 175 crossflow vs on her shes heavyer in the stearn than with my 4cyl evin
thanks i am trying to find a dry weight fo my hull anyone?

 

[DJ]

Re: 17ft mckee

Contact McKee here.

http://www.mckeecraft.com/

 

[mthieme]

Re: 17ft mckee

yes it not hard to haul around by hand on trailer
by hand i can pickup front boat doesnt seam haevy it drafts about 8 inches
but i also am running a 1983 175 crossflow vs on her shes heavyer in the stearn than with my 4cyl evin
thanks i am trying to find a dry weight fo my hull anyone?

If you can lift the bow, she's passed the field test.
If it were saturated, you wouldn't have been able to do that.
I wouldn't sweat it. Go have fun.
I picked up a 14' McKee Craft this season...been having a blast.
My Searay got jealous and paid me back by developing barnacles

 

[Stoutcat]

Re: 17ft mckee

Hi,

In the "For What It's Worth Dept."

In general, to roughly determine the weight of a boat/trailer/motor combo...

1. Get the trailer etc. on level ground
2. Roll the rig onto at least two sheets of light cardboard, one for each wheel
3. Lift the tongue and determine its weight... (If you have to, attach/clamp/rope another tire to the front of the trailer and put a sheet of light cardboard under it.)
4. Next take a pen and outline where the tires meet the cardboard
5. Once you've got that done, you can move the trailer out of the way and keep the cardboard
6. Now, carefully take the air pressure of the tires... (For sake of example, let's say that it's 30psi and that the tongue weight is 75lbs on a one-axle trailer)
7. On to the cool part... Take the sheets of cardboard and measure the outline for each trailer tire where it met the cardboard/pavement... (I'll just use an example of 4" X 4"... Don't worry about imperfect measurements - just do your best. Anyway... 4" X 4" comes out to 16 sq inches.)
8. Sooo... A tire inflated to 30 pounds per square inch occupying 16 square inches is carrying a load of 30 times 16 or 480 pounds. With a balanced load, the two tow tires add up to 960 pounds. Add to that 75 pounds of tongue weight, and we're looking at 1035 pounds...

While this method isn't perfect, it will give you some idea of the weight involved, and it's fast. Also, it works when your trailer is empty, or when the motor is off the boat, or when you want to compare the "dry" weight (that is the boat hasn't seen water for a week or so) vs. the "just out of the water" wet weight, vs. loaded, vs...

Alan