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The further from the center line of the hull, the better the leverage of the ballast. My bags are 6ft from the center line and there is no other ballast in the hull.

You have nailed it exactly. The problem is an imbalance and the answer is leveling by adding ballast. I used plastic bags of crushed stone tucked into a narrow unusable space behind one of the galley cabinets. The bags are flexible enough to adapt themselves into nooks and crannies and never...

An crossover by itself does NOT ensure a boat with uneven fuel levels in each tank will be level side to side when sitting at rest. It only works to accomplish that if the boat is load balanced such that it is level side to side with NO fuel in each tank when sitting at rest.

Prototype TF Burgee I'm clearly no graphic artist, but if there still is serious interest here is a simple prototype idea. Need to get some red in there, perhaps the trawler has a red hull?

Welcome aboard and I love your boat!

This Italian Absolute Navetta 58 is 1 of only 3 in North America. It was shipped to Florida and cruised up here into the Great Lakes where it is in a marina in the port of Grand Haven on Lake Michigan. There is a nicely written story about how it got here and there are lots of great pictures of...

Welcome two more Great Lakes boaters to the Trawler Forum!

Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, Echo Bay Anchorage Echo Bay is in one of the most desolate areas on the east side of the Lake Huron Georgian Bay. It is tucked away just off the small craft route near Echo Island at the tip of a series of narrow ways amidst the 30,000 rocky islands. This anchorage...

I am assuming you have a tank on each side of the boat with a crossover. If the crossover is open at the dock, and the fuel imbalance increases to one side or the other, the cause is most likely due to a weight imbalance on the boat. The fuel will always seek to be level across the tanks. Try...

Welcome to another Great Lakes boater. You will find it very valuable.

Welcome! It is good to have another member from the Great Lakes participating in the forum.

As others have said, this is probably not a fuel balance issue but a boat loading balance issue. I found that to be true in Great Laker, and solved it by adding a couple of plastic bags of sand in an open space behind the galley cabinets against the hull wall. The further from the boat center...

Earlier I wrote about multiple CG boardings in Jacksonville, and raised questions about the appropriateness of this use for training, and questioned if this was a good use of government resources. It was not a complaint about the legality or an indictment of the process. I have another...

With regard to making a complaint to the local commandant... I have issued complaints on occasion to the county sheriff, township managers, and city officials, regarding violations of Nuisances Per Sa and zoning ordinances. These rarely go anywhere despite following their procedures for...

Yes, you are correct. I was thinking of the CG Reserves when I wrote that. Members of the Coast Guard Reserve are paid for all time spent training or deployed. In addition, they receive most of the same benefits as full-time Coast Guard members, including tuition support, training and plenty...

We were on the Great Loop, which is a fantastic adventure unlike anything we had ever done before, and were moving on north up the ICW in a few days. It was not a good time to engage on this issue. If I was living locally, I might have just set up a meeting with the Commander as you suggest.

The CG Aux gets paid... maybe I should too? :)

I found this on-line: To join the Coast Guard Reserve, you must be a U.S. citizen or resident alien between 18 and 39 years old (17 with parental consent). While GEDs are sometimes accepted, high school diplomas are preferred. All recruits take the ASVAB test to determine placement. Coast...

I checked the log and it was a Wed and Thurs, which probably explains the lack of other boat traffic on the river.

Two consecutive boardings in two days I have experienced multiple unnecessary boardings as well. They occurred on the St John's River in downtown Jacksonville. We were the only boat in the area and were headed for tying up on the public wall when a red inflatable hard-bottom CG boat pulled...

If you should care to throttle up to 18 knots, you would look like this.

I bought a Meta-Wagon from Camping World on sale. It is very rugged and well built. The wheels come off and the cart folds flat for storage. https://www.campingworld.com/mega-wagon

Depending on the load, an American Tug 36 with a Cummins 380 turbo can easily reach around 18-20 mph approaching 3,000 rpm. Best overall cruising taking into account speed, fuel use and range is about 9 mph at 1,600 rpm.

I have been attending meetings of groups funded to study the Asian Carp invasion into the Great Lakes. Here are a few points that have not been mentioned. The DNA of these carp has been found upstream of the electric fence on the Illinois River. However, to my knowledge no live fish have been...

Great Laker is documented and registered in MI. No need for state numbers on the hull. Dinghy is registered in MI with numbers. Documentation is a common recommendation for boaters doing the Great Loop and going to the Bahamas or Canada.