Hi Phil, I guess your trailer has an extensible tongue, or you let it roll down the ramp with a winch, to allow your 5 ft.of draft to float off the trailer without drowning your truck.
Regards, Art Herrick #5468 Sea Change ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil A To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:13 AM Subject: RE: catalina27-talk: Hull speed Well I'm spoiled; I have a transporter, as Frank Butler puts it. I just call it a gooseneck trailer. http://www.catalina27.org/wingtip/mvc-736x.jpg It cost me $10 to weight twice. They weigh it once for the bare trailer eight and once loaded. They'll even save the data for weeks until I come back to close the ticket. I've even snuck a free hitch weight out of them by re-hitching before I went in to settle up and then noting the scale reading. Since my truck was off the scale the difference from the loaded weight to the drive away weight was the hitch weight. It was only 900 at first but I've got it up to 2,000 now. The truck, trailer, and boat have a 17,500 lb GVRW going down the road. Phil Agur s/v Wing Tip Secretary, Call Sign WCW3485 IC27/270A MMSI 366901790 www.catalina27.org Vessel Doc# 1039809 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe McCary Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: catalina27-talk: Hull speed Any idea just how we get an actual boat's real weight? My bathroom scale barely reads my weight. Joe McCary Aeolus II, West River, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil A Of course no one should be using an assumed factory weight but get a real weight.
