Additional Bow weight

[scook]

You might experiment to see if you need all three of the bags of sand. I don’t have any technical knowledge but I can’t imagine that amount of weight (distributed a little so it’s not a point load) causing any structural problems.

My other concern would be to make sure the bags don’t rupture and end up with sand plugging the bow area bilge drain - you could probably clean it out but it’d be a mess to deal with.