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That is an interesting approach. I always just slipped her back into the water to float up to the winch. 

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Charles Nieman



> On Oct 17, 2015, at 8:51 AM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
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> A little light amusement for you wiser heads. For reasons I won't go into
> (too embarrassing) when I pulled my Rhodes the other day, I discovered she
> was sitting on the bunks a foot back on the trailer. Once out of the water
> there was no way to winch her forward with the trailer winch. I called a
> wise friend for advice, and he suggested squeezing dish soap between the
> bunks and the hull to reduce the friction and make them slippery. One bottle
> of dish soap later, I wedged the trailer tires, attached a cable from the
> bow ring to the hitch on my 4 wd station wagon and on the third pull ­
> voilà!! Jerked the boat snug up to the wedge on the trailer. Hallelujah. O
> my aching learning curveŠ
> 
> Jefferson Lewis
> SS Patience 1976
> Lake Memphremagog, Quebec
> 
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