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Old 09-27-2020, 08:59 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by psneeld View Post
...personally, on any trawler 36' and over....I wouldn't sweat 500 pounds unless all of a sudden it handled way differently.

Most boats really aren't designed with the larger house battery bank many of us add...so stability shouldn't drop to dangerous.

But if still interested....I would be looking for scrap lead.
Good point - thinking about it, I agree that OP may want to consider whether the weight really needs to be replaced.

That said, I had some of my concrete ballast torn out. Boat is in Ensenada 75 miles south of San Diego. It took a while but my yard guys did find some scrap lead in Tijuana. It still wasn't all that cheap - I think it was $1/lb and wasn't tremendously clean which was fine, but still - you'd think I could do better in Tijuana (a large industrial city) for 800 lbs scrap. I guess there's a pretty efficient market for recycling these days.

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