I found righting bags to be near useless except when it was calm enough that you didn't need them. If you are big and strong enough to use them in 3-5+ ft seas you are big enough not to need then.

I found righting bar that you can quickly deploy and retrive to be a lot more likely to work when you really need it.

These experiences are from a NACRA 5.5Uni that needed 200-300 lbs to right, depending on wind angles. I built the right bar after I left the righting bag on a piling. I left it on a piling beacuse I was using it to keep the boat off the rocks because I couldn't right the boat with it before I drifted into some docks.


Congratulations on the boat. You will get special pleasure sailing something you built.