Does anyone out there have any tips to retrieve a Typhoon on a "EZ Loader" brand, float off type trailer? Launching the boat is not a problem but retriving it so that she sits correctly on the four pads and the bow roller without adjustments to all the supports is tough. Any tips or info would be most helpful.
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Typhoon trailer launching /retrievial
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David Ohlinger
Re: Typhoon trailer launching /retrievial
Interesting that you are having he same problem I did. I sold my CD here in Ventura to some guy from Lancaster?? Desert any way. Is this the same one "Tillie" built in 1974 I beleive.John Danicic wrote: Does anyone out there have any tips to retrieve a Typhoon on a "EZ Loader" brand, float off type trailer? Launching the boat is not a problem but retriving it so that she sits correctly on the four pads and the bow roller without adjustments to all the supports is tough. Any tips or info would be most helpful.
I would probably do things differently today but the way I solved it then was to get the boat on the trailer as best as I could . Then go down the road about 10 mph and slam on the brkes. worked like a champ. But the real problem of course was the alignment of the rollers with the keel of the hull
Not having the wherewithall at the time to make the mods required precluded my doing any thing about it.
I suggest you stick with the aft two rollers and go with a cradle arrangement forward. Put a U bolt in the hull and lower the winch to the water line.
Dave Ohlinger
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