Yesterday morning at high tide (5:45 a.m.!!), I managed to float Pokey off her trailer. Not that it was problem free, but the problems were more with stepping the mast than with the trailer.
I used a ten foot chain to allow the trailer to get deeper - the heavy duty Fulton wheeled tongue jack worked fine. At that depth she needed a very little bit of pushing.
This Fall I'll add another ten feet of chain and try to float her on. I'm thinking of how to deal with the angle issue raised below, i.e. pulling on a bow eye or other bow-attached line will pull the bow down relative to the trailer, so that when the trailer is pulled out, the stern tries to settle onto the trailer putting excess force on the bow attachment. I thought by pulling her into position using a line down each side attached near the stern, perhaps the winches, might handle this. Or a variation of the floating trailer described below might be to attach the bow to the trailer and use the winches to position the back of the trailer into place under the boat using two lines to the back of the trailer.
But that can wait until the Fall! It's time to sail!
Joel
Pokey II
'73 Ty #549
Bayside, NY
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Floated Off Trailer for First Time - She's In!!
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Chuck Gardner
Re: Floated Off Trailer for First Time - She's In!!
Joel, I need all the help I can ge on un-stepping and stepping a mast on a CD25 we are going to be moving soon. Thanks Chuck
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Chuck Gardner
Re: Floated Off Trailer for First Time - She's In!!
Joel, I need all the help I can ge on un-stepping and stepping a mast on a CD25 we are going to be moving soon. Thanks Chuck
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Serge Zimberoff
Bow Line Shouldn't Hinder Recovery
Joel,
With a little extra depth as you are planning, you shouldn't have to put any real tension on the winch to get the bow to the bow stop. We use a bridle cut from an old piece of 3/16" stranded shroud. It is about 20" long with eyes crimped into each end. This goes through the built-in bow line fairleads and the eyes are brought together to clip to the winch shackle. We mainly just use this for keeping the boat located fore and aft on the trailer so it doesn't cause recovery problems.
Should be a piece of cake, so to speak.
Serge
Ty #1700 'Cloning Around'
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With a little extra depth as you are planning, you shouldn't have to put any real tension on the winch to get the bow to the bow stop. We use a bridle cut from an old piece of 3/16" stranded shroud. It is about 20" long with eyes crimped into each end. This goes through the built-in bow line fairleads and the eyes are brought together to clip to the winch shackle. We mainly just use this for keeping the boat located fore and aft on the trailer so it doesn't cause recovery problems.
Should be a piece of cake, so to speak.
Serge
Ty #1700 'Cloning Around'
serge@srtrop.com
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Joel
Mast Stepping
My Ty has a deck-stepped mast, i.e. the foot of the mast is held in a tabernacle on the cabin top. I can straddle the companionway and lift the mast into position if I do so oin one smooth motion. I've done this when she was on the mooring in relative calm seas. It can be done with the shrouds and backstay connected, and even still at heir fully tensioned setting. Only the forestay needs to be loosened. The trick is to have crew help to position the mast by standing at the stern and holding it overhead while I position the foot into place. The problems always arise with the shrouds or backstay catching one fitting or another or kinking at the toggle below the turnbuckle. I've bent the toggles because I didn't notice that they were out of alignment. Once the mast is up, the crew attaches the forestay. Adjust the forestay turnbuckle and you're set.
Reverse the procedure to unstep the mast. You can lower it in a smooth enough motion that it doesn't come crashing down on the crew waiting for it at the stern. My wife has helped me with this procedure, and though game, she's not overly rugged.
The spar and rigging on your CD25 will be correspondingly heavier than what I've been describing. You may consider rigging the a-frame contraption that was described in Good Old Boat magazine to give an assist.
Good luck,
Joel
Pokey II
'73 Ty #549
Bayside, NY
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Reverse the procedure to unstep the mast. You can lower it in a smooth enough motion that it doesn't come crashing down on the crew waiting for it at the stern. My wife has helped me with this procedure, and though game, she's not overly rugged.
The spar and rigging on your CD25 will be correspondingly heavier than what I've been describing. You may consider rigging the a-frame contraption that was described in Good Old Boat magazine to give an assist.
Good luck,
Joel
Pokey II
'73 Ty #549
Bayside, NY
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