You can do that! I just leave the doors open and wear a snorkel!
I can't let tf have all the fun. Actually the vertical black section you can see at the front of the trailer is a heavy wall 2 x 2 drop legs with 10,000 lbs casters (sold for RV ass dragging). When I'm ready to launch I crank a gooseneck hitch jack and that raises the nose of the trailer by pushing the hitch down, lower and pin the drop legs, block the trailer, crank the hitch up off the ball, and pull forward a few feet. Then I hook up a 25 ft long Y of 10,000 pound test anchor chain from the class 5 hitch to U bolts near the trailer legs. Then I retract the bow stop, lower the front pad so the boat can kneel as it floats, pick up the slack on the chain, un-block the wheels, and rely on gravity. Coming back is the same in reverse except the retractable bow stop is set to the haul out position so the boat lands where it is meant to ride down the road. Once on the flat the bow stop moves back against the boa again and the forward pad is raised. Phil Agur <http://www.catalina27.org/public_pages/profile270.htm> s/v Wing Tip Secretary, Call Sign WCW3485 IC27/270A MMSI 366901790 <http://www.catalina27.org> www.catalina27.org Vessel Doc# 1039809 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of HERRICK Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Hull speed 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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <http://www.catalina27.org/public_pages/profile270.htm> s/v Wing Tip Secretary, Call Sign WCW3485 IC27/270A MMSI 366901790 <http://www.catalina27.org> 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.
