[Rhodes22-list] New R22 Owner!!

[Robert Skinner]

FYI - as another unusual launch method:

A ball hitch on the front of the tow vehicle 
to attach the trailer improves visibility and 
maneuverability.  Add a winch with controls in 
the cab, and you have a pretty capable rig.

-- 
Robert Skinner 
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Slim wrote:
> 
> Hank,
> 
> OK, thanks for the enlightenment--I've never heard of that before.  I
> sometimes launch at some pretty crude ramps and I can envision some
> nightmares with this method but if the ramp is in good shape and the guy in
> charge has a brain -- Brad? -- I can see it might be OK.
> 
> Slim
> 
> On 6/7/06 5:24 PM, "Hank" <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Slim,
> >
> > My Islander 36 was launched off of a very large trailer in just this
> > manner.  A semi-tractor backs down the ramp as far as possible and then
> > disconnects the trailer from the truck and continues backing it down with
> > the cable.  It's done very slowly and If one tire hangs it is very obvious
> > and you just stop the cable and re-wind.  I was told by the marina operator
> > that this is a vey common method in many marinas.  This marina launches and
> > recovers hundreds of boats a year, some as big as 45 feet.
> >
> > Hank
> >
> > On 6/7/06, Slim <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Brad,
> >>
> >> I'd be very worried about using a cable instead of the tongue extension to
> >> get the trailer out to deep water.  You wouldn't have control over the
> >> steering of the trailer while backing in and if you ever did get it to go
> >> straight back into the water, it'd be an accident.  Maybe in a perfect
> >> world
> >> with a perfect ramp, but if one wheel got hung up on a bump or a little
> >> hole
> >> and the other wheel kept rolling...
> >>
> >> The last few times I've used the extension without disconnecting.  I chock
> >> the trailer tires and put down the tongue jack.  Then slowly pull out the
> >> extension with a helper standing there to pop in the pins as the holes
> >> line
> >> up.  It goes real quick.
> >>
> >> Slim
> >>
> >> On 6/6/06 6:56 PM, "brad haslett" <flybrad at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> OK folks, work with me here.  It has been a long time
> >>> since I raised the mast on a Rhodes22.  How about
> >>> taking Stan's basic system without the hand winch,
> >>> just a pole mounted block on the foredeck with a cable
> >>> connected to a 12V ATV winch (available at WalMart for
> >>> about $80).  Mount the winch on the tongue of the
> >>> trailer and power it off the tow vehicle. OR, you
> >>> could mount the winch ON the tow vehicle and eliminate
> >>> the trailer extension.  Let the trailer drop as far in
> >>> the water as you wanted via cable (after raising the
> >>> mast) and never worry about the depth of the water at
> >>> the launch ramp.  Forgive me if this is buried in the
> >>> archives. It would certainly be worth it to me to save
> >>> a backache.  You could easily make it remote control
> >>> as well. Anyone tried it?
> >>>
> >>> Brad
> >>>
> >>> --- Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Todd Z:
> >>>>        Are you saying the newer system is better?  A
> >>>> side by side
> >>>> comparison?
> >>>> Ed K
> >>>> Greenville, SC USA
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