[Rhodes22-list] Glued to trailer

Lowe, Rob rlowe at vt.edu
Thu May 12 14:11:23 EDT 2011


Agreed.  Ken, thanks for sharing.  Nothing like admitting embarrassing things to your Rhodes family. - rob

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Just glad I am not the only person stuff like this happens to.:)

Carl


KenBates wrote:
> 
> Had a very dificult launch. My Rhodes wouldnt come of the trailer.
> repeated attempts produced a rocking floating action but 2 people in the
> water pushing an motor pulling and hitting the breakes hard didnt work.
> Pulled back out checked center board all seems fine. Finaly it broke loose
> and as the trailer pulled away the answer becane clear, we had ripped much
> of the bunk carped loose. it had been glued and stapled .
> 
> We had put 2 coats of interlux bottomcoat on and waited the maximum
> recomended time of 72 hours before setting the boat down on the trailer.
> Then we couldnt launch for 4 more days, during which time the paint fused
> to the bunk carpet  ...... should have left the plastic on the bunks
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p31555158/IMG_0280.jpeg  
> 
> 

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