Disregard my previous post I was just thinking out loud.

yeah, and you better not let Amanda hear you think

My 10 Gal water tank is on the port side also same as the two batteries.

Believe it or not - every Top Gun I have ever seen sitting at a dock seems to lean to the starboard side slightly. I originally thought it was my boat - a 1994 Top Gun. Then I looked at two other Top Guns - a 1997 and a 1999. All of them - regardless of power and equipment - leaned to the right.

I thought it might be due to the slight extra weight of the driver's helm on the starboard side. Since it bugged me I performed an unscientific test. I had both gas tanks filled to the top and then I had a 170lb. friend stand on the port side to see how much it offset the lean. If he stood all the way to the port - the slight lean changed to the port side. If he moved about six inches towards center - the boat was exactly level. I found it difficult to believe that the helm would make that much of a difference (in excess of 100lbs.) to cause the lean.

I actually think that is the reason Cigarette placed the batteries on the port side in the older boats. It seems like there might have been a slight variance in the mold that either caused the hull to be uneven at the transom and appear to lean - or maybe the hulls did lean. I have never heard of any problems but I definately had a lean on my boat. It used to bug the crap out of me!

You know whats crazy..... My 1982 35 Mistress leans a bit. Also and especially I always find myself dragging the starboard tab (not drastic but more than I'd like) to keep her level. I always try on convince myself.... oh thats the wind or current. But every time I am out on the boat it leans to starboard. It drives me so crazy that I make people stand/sit on the port side when running hard because I hate dragging that tab all the time. Crazy....

Danny - You're definately not crazy in feeling the way you do. I used to fill the port gas tank with an extra 20 gallons or so to try to balance the boat out. If I had three people on board including myself I would have the third passenger stand behind the passenger (port) bolster. I did whatever I could to make sure there was always more weight on the port side. Strange indeed!!

My TG seems to need stbd tab to keep it level. Seems to list to right when on plane. I thought it was because of wind.

Well at least they don't have leftist tendencies.

I wonder if the weight of all the gauges, cables,shifters,helm etc is what causes it? If you look at several boats sitting in the water side by side at a raft up, all the right hand drive boats seem to lean righ a little. Just an un scientific observation from a raft up a couple weeks ago.

My first wife used to lean to the right. How fat was she????????????