Thank you Jerry for sharing your wisdom and insight about the keel. I always wondered what it would be like to Bolt a hundred pound strip of weight to the bottom 4 inches of my Potter 19 keel.
I think that since Potter has a hard chine that resist healing over that I wouldn’t notice it.
Concerning lead ballast: wheel weights are no longer made of lead. I learned this when scrounging lead more than 10 years ago. I PAID (fortunately no much) for a bucket of wheel weights, about half of which wouldn't melt no matter how hot we got the crucible! I also learned that Schnitzer's scrap yard no longer bought or sold lead. But you can order lead ingots from Amazon, with free Prime shipping to your door! But I managed to scrounge enough lead for my ballast from friends and acquaintances without getting it from the little bald guy -- who wasn't bald yet back then.
I used the "lost styrofoam" method to cast the lead pigs.
Thank you Jerry for sharing your wisdom and insight about the keel. I always wondered what it would be like to Bolt a hundred pound strip of weight to the bottom 4 inches of my Potter 19 keel.
I think that since Potter has a hard chine that resist healing over that I wouldn’t notice it.
Concerning lead ballast: wheel weights are no longer made of lead. I learned this when scrounging lead more than 10 years ago. I PAID (fortunately no much) for a bucket of wheel weights, about half of which wouldn't melt no matter how hot we got the crucible! I also learned that Schnitzer's scrap yard no longer bought or sold lead. But you can order lead ingots from Amazon, with free Prime shipping to your door! But I managed to scrounge enough lead for my ballast from friends and acquaintances without getting it from the little bald guy -- who wasn't bald yet back then.
I used the "lost styrofoam" method to cast the lead pigs.