Well I was lucky, the ballast was in form of lead bars laid out beneath the seats mostly up forward. Just took them out and left the lead in the keel. I haven't removed floorboards yet but need to access for a hull repair so I will probably remove them soon.
Steve
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Jerry" <capth2o@...> wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> How did you go about removing the extra ballast? They put that in the boats
> in lieu of a second set of batteries and I may think about adding a second,
> return to shore, set in the future. My Duffy is just a few weeks old to me
> so haven't explored it that much. Seems like two options... cut through the
> bottom of the seat hatches or split the deck and liner from the hull.
>
> Thanks for any info!
>
> Jerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>
> To answer previous question the original running gear on this boat is
> unknown as we purchased it as a hull without running gear. We also removed
> about 600lbs of lead which was down in the bilge. The boat still as lead in
> a keel which keeps it stable.
>
> Steve
>
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