Old Mac/Venture boat weight

[Wyb2]

Does anyone with an iron keel Mac or Venture know the actual weight of their boat? The brochure for the 25 says 2100lbs. That always seemed pretty light. Interestingly I noticed the v24 brochure also lists exactly 2100 lbs, even though it’s a few inches shorter and has 50lbs less ballast.

So I decided to try to weight my boat. It’s on the trailer, blocked up, and the boat is basically empty. I used the lever arm and scale method with a heavy pipe and a shop crane to get below the 650 lb max of my scale. So with a 3 ft pipe, blocked at 0, trailer frame at 1, and crane/scale/rope at 3, I got 620 lbs to get the frame off it’s block. Times 3 is 1860 lbs for one side, so a total weight of 3720 lbs. The way I did this the tongue weight was basically zero, so I’m ignoring it.

So obviously there’s some error here, let’s call it +/- 10%, or 370 lbs. I had guessed the trailer was 400lbs, but let’s up that to 500. That gives me a boat weight of 2850 lbs.

That actually seems pretty reasonable, and is much closer to in line with other 24s/25s with swing keels. Were they just being that optimistic with the brochure? It’s a pretty big difference. Any other data points would be nice to see.

[KingRichard]

Scales at the dump grounds are normally low key and fairly slow when the weather's bad.

[Wyb2]

Thanks. The transfer station in my town doesn’t have a scale that I know of. If I find one I might try that.