Topic: CG Tonnage Problem
I am looking into the process of regristering a Contessa 26 with the US Goast Guard but have fallen into the same trap that Dave Morgan and Newell Decker did with their regristing (read "Bad Dog vs. the Landlubberly Bureaucrats" on home page). The CG on-line "simplified measurement" CG-5397 formula (have the official instr. document on the formula) puts a Contessa 26 at 4 tons due to the keel factor of 0.75 (hull designed for sailing) and not 6.12 tons using 1.0 factor that Dave and Newell used. Has anyone tried to regrister their boat thru CG recently? Is there anyone out there with a CG regrister Contessa 26? Help.....