What is the pitch of your Salon?

[brimanst]

3' seas...sheeesh that's nothing. Try 6-8 with some thunderstorms which made riding the troughs of the 5-7s easy. BUT...we made it to Nippers for the Barefoot concert so I guess alls well that ends well.

Now for you doubters of Gary and others on this site. Here is a side-by-side picture of where she sits in the water after picking up 413 gals of fuel. The holding is almost empty, and the fresh is almost full.

 

[Pirate]

3' seas...sheeesh that's nothing. Try 6-8 with some thunderstorms which made riding the troughs of the 5-7s easy. BUT...we made it to Nippers for the Barefoot concert so I guess alls well that ends well.

True 6-8' with any kind of frequency wash over the bow and make life HELL on the 480. 6-8 swells with a relaxed period are very doable. Anyway, 6 to 8 is much better than 9 to 5. :grin:

When is the pig roast at Nipper's? Have a DRINK for me!

 

[douglee25]

I think moving the platform up is going to be the ticket. You should be able to work around the shower power situation. Maybe you can use a hole sole through the platform or remount the connection up higher.

Doug

 

[Four Suns]

I remember the first time I buried the nose of the Four Suns into a wave... it was an "oh shit" moment.... One of those instant 5 knot reductions in speed that about throws you over the helm. Have I mentioned that sloping down nose is a bad design?

 

[Four Suns]

I think moving the platform up is going to be the ticket. You should be able to work around the shower power situation. Maybe you can use a hole sole through the platform or remount the connection up higher.

Doug

That's not just a shore power connection but the outlet to a Glendinning Cablemaster which has a lot of plumbing behind it... It ain't that simple.

 

[Pirate]

I think moving the platform up is going to be the ticket. You should be able to work around the shower power situation. Maybe you can use a hole sole through the platform or remount the connection up higher.

Doug

Yeah... I have to agree with Gary on that one. If your platform is dragging in seas, you need to fix it before it causes a bad problem at the wrong time. Using some delrin blocks to raise the platform probably isn't that bad (though I'm sure the hardware will protest with all of its might). The complicated part will be moving the Cablemaster, but it's worth doing right and I don't think a hole saw is the way to go.

Have some drinks at Nippers and think about it. :thumbsup:

 

[Four Suns]

It would be a big job to raise the platform. I had a new platform put on my boat and it required a hauling and the use of a forklift. The fiberglass platform alone (no hardware) probably is on the order of 700-800 pounds.

 

[RollerCoastr]

I still don't doubt Gary, but those pics don't solve the mystery in my opinion. The boat was already sitting low, before adding 413 gallons of fuel. Being that empty, and sitting in salt water, I would expect the stern to sit higher than it was in the earlier pic. (or do I have that dynamic reversed? Boats DO sit higher in salt, right?)

 

[Four Suns]

Looks about right to me...

I noticed your bottom paint line was raised but not your boot stripe. I actually had my boot stripe raised with the bottom paint line... you may want to consider doing that... My 2 cents...

 

[RollerCoastr]

lol ok, mystery solved.

 

[brimanst]

Well, there are two things to consider when raising the swim platform. The glendining, which does not hurt my feelings, because I do not like it that low. Also, since I have a TNT lift, it lowers into the water. I need to make sure if I raise the platform, that when I lower it, the dink floats off the chocks.

The wild boar roast at Nippers is on Sunday. Last Sunday they had the Barefoot man playing live, so there was more people that and engineer would allow on those ricketty decks, but a good time was had by all.

And yes, my butt was extremely puckered when the bow went under the water. It does not matter if it is the first or the thousandth time, it still puckers.

 

[Carver370]

Have you solved this? Bringing back an old thread.

I think I may have a solution to your problem, your platform looks like the newer style vs. what would have come on a 98. Check out some of these pictures and you will see what I am talking about.

The platform itself seems to be not as thick if you would call it that. It looks like on the newer models with the platform the original poster has they figured out the problem and raised it up along with raising up the cablemaster.

Here is the older style platform on a 2000 480, it actually looks kind of goofy way up in the air but I am sure it doesn't drag either!

 

[sbw1]

I am hoping that other 480DB owners and other similar boats will help me out. I seem to have a significant pitch to the boat that is very noticable in the Salon. It is hard to cook sunny side up eggs since they all bunch up to one side of the pan. It does not seem to matter if I have the dink on or off.

On the 48 you are supposed to fill your fresh water tank and pump the holding tank prior do doing eggs sunny side up.

 

[Skuza]

The transom is probably soaking wet and pulling the stern down... I know this is gonna keep ya up a few minutes longer tonight!
Could just be a built in flaw of that paticular model? Or it could be specific to your boat and equipment.

 

[MadDog]

Sorry to be late to this thread, but a fellow 480DB owner down the dock from me had the arms replaced on his swimstep to raise it from the "below rubrail" level to the "above rub rail" level. So it can be done.