[Jeff_H]

You are correct that I only mentioned the reduced stability, carrying capacity or higher drag implicit with a low density ballast in passing.

Not to start a food fight, but for the record, your Endeavour 32 is only 4 inches shallower than a Vanguard, and as I have mentioned to you before, one of the boats that I have read a post on that drove its ballast keel up through its upper membrane was an Endeavour 32 (Do a search on CWBB around 1996/97, the discussion starts with a Watkins owned by a guy name Jerry with an encapsulated keel problem and in the course of that discussion there was a fellow with an Endeavour 32 trying to figure out how to do the repairs cheaply enough because the insurance company wanted to total his boat.)

Fair winds, Flat water, and favorable currents,
Jeff