Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts

Monday, May 16, 2011

The mystery of the weight

According to Sailboat Data Koan is supposed to displace just under 5,000 lbs. During the haul I asked for the weight on the crane, and it was 7,000 lbs. They confirmed that they've compared the crane to a super-accurate measurement used for one-designs and it was within 20 lbs (though I suppose the error is a percentage of weight, so without knowing what they were weighing I can't estimate the error in our case).

Any ideas? What could possibly weigh an extra 2,000 lbs?!