Put her on the trailer

Tom · #1 07-02-2002, 10:02 AM

Trayder, you must keep dreaming about running WOT through an early morning slick calm sea, blasting down past Fort Adams on the way to catching some fish....it will help take away the pain of continuous sanding, fairing, sanding, fairing. I was wondering how you were going to do the other side... how about one of those portable canopies from home depot in the south 40 of that ranch - you have room!...Once the painting and body work is done, then the fun part is rigging and screwing everything together......keep the faith!

Trayder · #2 07-02-2002, 11:11 AM

Luckily the boat still fits in the garage with the trailer so my game plan is to work on her out side and then bak her in the garage when I am done.

John R- That is a very good question. I never thought about the size of the trailer with the bracket add on. Hmmmmm. I do not know how a larger trailer would help as there would still be no support for the bracket as it is 3-4 inches above the bottom of the hull but I do not know.

Any one have any thoughts about this one?

Tom- did you get a different trailer for your Whitewater when you added the bracket?

Scott · #3 07-02-2002, 11:38 AM

Trayder ...you answered your own question. As long as the back set of rollers are close to the transom (within 6-12" of the stern of the boat), your done. Like you say you cannot support the bracket as it rises several inches above the bottom of the boat. You load the boat up the trailer that far and.....well you know the rest.

You may need to mess around with the balance/location of boat on the trailer since you've added 400lbs. 29" further aft of where it use to be. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Billybob · #4 07-02-2002, 05:27 PM

I want to see some pic's too ! It feels great just to run what you spent soooo much time on , Enjoy it Fellowship you deserve it.And it sure feels good getting all those coments on the boat, doesn't it.People just notice these boats, don't they ?
I would say that adding a bracket will make you adjust the tongue weight, maybe even make you move the axle's, but shouldn't affect trailer oal.
I got a buddy who took his Bert to Montauk for a couple weeks and let me use his slip - I got to go toss some eels at rocks in a half hour - but last time this year I was probably mixing a pot of epoxy, which means KEEP THE FAITH BOY'S IT'S ALL GONNA PAY OFF!

Blackwater21 · #5 07-03-2002, 12:34 AM

Fellow-ship
My 23 is a 76 that has a title of a 77 also. I have pictures of mine but i don't know how to post them.

Scott · #6 07-03-2002, 01:55 AM

Hey Blackwater

Seems like alot of us have the same deal with the HIN and the Title papers......Me too 1976-77

If you need stuff posted and you can email it I'm sure we ( myself or some of the others on the site) could get them posted for you

We all Love seeing new boats!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]