I remembered hearing becjm (former owner of my boat) mention that it is a heavy weight boat, so its got me thinking, just how heavy is my boat. Whats are some methods of weighing hull/platform weight. Ben when you owned it, did you ever have it weighed? And are there any possible methods of reducing the weight without compromising structural integrity.

I tried weighing each hull one while the boat is on the trailer by lifting a hull up and sliding a bathroom scales under the hull and where it rests on the trailer. The weight came in at around 35-36kg per hull, though there is still some water in the hulls from sunday and im not entirely sure about the accuracy of weighing the hulls this way due to potential inaccuracies due to rotational force moments potentially induced due to the difference in heights between the hull being weighed (higher) and the hull still resting on the trailer (lower)

I ask as my sailing has gotten a lot better over the last couple months and yet i find i can only just beat maricats (they are good sailors mind u though) upwind when its windy enough for me to trapeze, i tend to just stay with them when its anything less, and i usually get flogged by them downwind when they go square. With the few times ive raced with the spinnaker though i find i can beat them fairly well downwind now though my spinnaker skills are still very underdeveloped. However they tear me apart on yardstick. I am a heavy crew coming in at 96kg and after seeing bens comment about the boat being heavy weight, im wondering just how much im being disadvantaged by all this extra weight, just how much does extra weight slow you down by? And apart from hitting the gym, is there anything else i can do to rectify this without having to buy new hulls. Id love to be able to sail my boat to or even close to its yardstick.

Thank you.
Michael.