[Rhodes22-list] Michael W.s Bent and Rusty Tongue

[Michael D. Weisner]

Ed,

Thanks for the fine advice.

Give up the vacation? Do you know a good divorce attorney?

I like the idea of a new fishing reef but I really cannot afford to do the 
time
resulting from sinking the trailer at sea, although the it would be an 
incredible
site sailing out with the trailer attached!

As far as lifting the boat off the trailer, that's relatively easy - just 
ask Hank.
That's how we got his boat onto his trailer for the journey from Pt Jeff, NY
to Maryland.

Got any other ideas?

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY

From: "Tootle" <ekroposki at charter.net> Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:12 PM
>
> Michael:
>
> Too hell with the fancy Caribbean vacation.  Get a good trailer and go to
> yard with a lift.  Change out and be done with it.  Maybe even give them 
> the
> junker.  Hope that they will take the junker.  Give them a few extra bucks
> to take the junker.  It is too dangerous to try to change out without a 
> lift
> even though it has been done.
>
> Another option is to get four large foam blocks like they use to hold up
> docks and attach to boat and trailer.  Put the whole kit and kabodle into
> the water and sail away from ramp and into deep water and cut trailer 
> loose.
> Make it a fish attractor.  Do the fishermen in your area a favor.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> Making right choices in gray areas is difficult.  To be aware of the 
> dilemma
> is not enough.   There needs to be a moral sensitivity which remembers to
> ask the right questions at the right time.  To know what is good is not
> enough.  There is a difference between waking up and getting up. There 
> must
> be specific decision for the right.  To be sensitive and aware is good. 
> To
> make proper decisions is better.  The way of victory is to maintain a 
> moral
> stamina which continues.   Paraphrase of Bryan Crenshaw
>
>
> quote author="Tootle">
> Mike:
>
> I think that when under load all extensions bend.  Maybe your bending is
> excessive?
>
> Go buy a piece of I beam long enough to reach from trailer hitch to
> somewhere back on trailer that allows for physical attachment to main
> trailer chassis.  Get about four large U-bolts with cross pieces and bolt
> the whole thing to extended extension and actual trailer chassis.  Just 
> like
> you were sistering a plank supporting a house?  I guess you could even use 
> a
> wood 4 x 4 about 12 feet long and make it work for the occasion.  But that
> might be too thick to get down a ramp.
>
> Locate a steep ramp that does not require extension.  When lake level is 
> up
> here at Hartwell there are many that you do not need extensions on.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> “Stainless steel’s resistance to corrosion relies on exposure to oxygen in
> the air or water.  When you tape a stainless steel turnbuckle or rigging
> terminal, you deprive it of oxygen, and the metal is more prone to
> corrosion.”  Bill Seifert
>
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