[Rhodes22-list] Fandango

[Todd Tavares]

Rummy,

   True-- if I had access to a welder, I would have made the stands out of steel.  As Bill E. points out in a follow-up post, any boat should rest with the keel on wooden blocks while on stands.

   I double wrapped the top of the stands with steel banding to prevent breaking out.  Believe me, my stands can support many times the weight of a Rhodes 22.  I also had side braces to keep the boat stable. I climbed all over (and under) the boat while on my stands, and my 250+lbs didn't so much as even shake the boat.  I always over engineer.

Todd


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From: R22RumRunner at aol.com
To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Fandango
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:38:11 EDT

> 
> 
> In a message dated 4/26/2005 8:15:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> tnrhodey at hotmail.com writes:
> 
> http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attch/200504/25/stands.jpg
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Rummy
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