[Rhodes22-list] Michael W.s Bent and Rusty Tongue

[Steven Alm]

Michael,

How hard can it be to just get a replacement piece of square tubing?  And
why can't it be replaced with the boat on the trailer?

Slim

On Jan 31, 2008 2:24 PM, Michael D. Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:

> Ed,
>
> Thanks for the fine advice.
>
> Give up the vacation? Do you know a good divorce attorney?
>
> I like the idea of a new fishing reef but I really cannot afford to do the
> time
> resulting from sinking the trailer at sea, although the it would be an
> incredible
> site sailing out with the trailer attached!
>
> As far as lifting the boat off the trailer, that's relatively easy - just
> ask Hank.
> That's how we got his boat onto his trailer for the journey from Pt Jeff,
> NY
> to Maryland.
>
> Got any other ideas?
>
> Mike
> s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
> Nissequogue River, NY
>
> From: "Tootle" <ekroposki at charter.net> Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:12 PM
> >
> > Michael:
> >
> > Too hell with the fancy Caribbean vacation.  Get a good trailer and go
> to
> > yard with a lift.  Change out and be done with it.  Maybe even give them
> > the
> > junker.  Hope that they will take the junker.  Give them a few extra
> bucks
> > to take the junker.  It is too dangerous to try to change out without a
> > lift
> > even though it has been done.
> >
> > Another option is to get four large foam blocks like they use to hold up
> > docks and attach to boat and trailer.  Put the whole kit and kabodle
> into
> > the water and sail away from ramp and into deep water and cut trailer
> > loose.
> > Make it a fish attractor.  Do the fishermen in your area a favor.
> >
> > Ed K
> > Greenville, SC, USA
> > Making right choices in gray areas is difficult.  To be aware of the
> > dilemma
> > is not enough.   There needs to be a moral sensitivity which remembers
> to
> > ask the right questions at the right time.  To know what is good is not
> > enough.  There is a difference between waking up and getting up. There
> > must
> > be specific decision for the right.  To be sensitive and aware is good.
> > To
> > make proper decisions is better.  The way of victory is to maintain a
> > moral
> > stamina which continues.   Paraphrase of Bryan Crenshaw
> >
> >
> > quote author="Tootle">
> > Mike:
> >
> > I think that when under load all extensions bend.  Maybe your bending is
> > excessive?
> >
> > Go buy a piece of I beam long enough to reach from trailer hitch to
> > somewhere back on trailer that allows for physical attachment to main
> > trailer chassis.  Get about four large U-bolts with cross pieces and
> bolt
> > the whole thing to extended extension and actual trailer chassis.  Just
> > like
> > you were sistering a plank supporting a house?  I guess you could even
> use
> > a
> > wood 4 x 4 about 12 feet long and make it work for the occasion.  But
> that
> > might be too thick to get down a ramp.
> >
> > Locate a steep ramp that does not require extension.  When lake level is
> > up
> > here at Hartwell there are many that you do not need extensions on.
> >
> > Ed K
> > Greenville, SC, USA
> > "Stainless steel's resistance to corrosion relies on exposure to oxygen
> in
> > the air or water.  When you tape a stainless steel turnbuckle or rigging
> > terminal, you deprive it of oxygen, and the metal is more prone to
> > corrosion."  Bill Seifert
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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