[Rhodes22-list] Fandango

[Bill Effros]

Always put blocks under the keel when it's off the trailer and you won't 
have to worry about it dropping.  It may tilt, but it won't drop.  I use 
cinder blocks with wood on top of them.  I raise the boat higher than I 
want it, set up the cinder blocks and wood, then drop the boat (using 
jacks) so the weight is on the wood, then set my poppits.  The poppits 
don't hold the boat, they just steady it.  You can then roll the trailer 
so the bunks are nowhere near where you want to paint.

Bill Effros

Steve Alm wrote:

>Todd, Rummy,
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>Even with my WM steel stands I don't feel all that safe under the boat.  But
>I'm only lifting about 6" off the bunks so if the stands fail, the boat will
>only drop that much.  And when I'm under there, I position myself such that
>a drop wouldn't squish me (I'm slim ya know) and I never stick my hands
>between hull and bunk--only the paint roller goes there.
>
>Slim
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>On 4/26/05 7:38 AM, "R22RumRunner at aol.com" <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
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>>In a message dated 4/26/2005 8:15:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>tnrhodey at hotmail.com writes:
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>>http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attch/200504/25/stands.jpg
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>>Todd,
>>I don't think you would catch me under a boat being held up by your stands.
>>Something about wooden stands that just doesn't seem right. For all the work
>>you  did, you could have made them out of steel pipe or square tubing and had
>>a 
>>welder put them together for you for not much money.
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>>Rummy
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