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- September 13th, 2024, 10:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking for help on a telescoping trailer
- Replies: 9
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Re: Looking for help on a telescoping trailer
Yeah, it's pretty bad, alright. I've just stretched it out and am adjusting the retraction stops, and when I loosened the nut on the stop and slid it in the T-channel about an inch, I found that there was no metal left behind it - the galvanic corrosion from the bolt head had completely destroyed th...
- September 8th, 2024, 5:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking for help on a telescoping trailer
- Replies: 9
- Views: 36641
Re: Looking for help on a telescoping trailer
These pictures are of someones home spun idea of how to build a telescoping trailer. This is all junk. The rollers have to be steel or aluminum. The inner, moving beam, must be moving on rollers at all times. At the outlet of the fixed half of the telescoping system there must be a roller above and...
- July 25th, 2024, 12:10 pm
- Forum: Technical Forum
- Topic: It's almost embarrassing to ask this question...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 78148
Re: It's almost embarrassing to ask this question...
A couple of weeks ago a local NACRA guy showed me what he'd done on his boat - it's simple and low-risk and I think it's worth a try. He strung a section of tubular webbing (a climbing thing) between the ends of his fore and aft crossbeams, one on each side of the boat, on the outside of the hull. T...
- July 9th, 2024, 1:01 pm
- Forum: Technical Forum
- Topic: Does anyone (else) have a telescoping 20 that they actually telescope?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14804
Re: Does anyone (else) have a telescoping 20 that they actually telescope?
Figured it's time for an update. I mounted an electric winch on a chunk of 4"x4" so it was outboard of the trailer (to port) on the (expanded) boat's centerline and just behind the mast stand. I would have liked to put it further forward - to increase the pull angle on the gin pole, becaus...
- July 1st, 2024, 1:02 am
- Forum: Technical Forum
- Topic: Does anyone (else) have a telescoping 20 that they actually telescope?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14804
Re: Does anyone (else) have a telescoping 20 that they actually telescope?
Yeah, I understand all that - I have it worked out on my 19, understand the importance of the trapeze wire sway control, etc. I was sloppy with it once and it cost me a mast base. I get the advantages of using the cat trax to anchor it, but that assumes a number of luxuries unavailable to me, like a...
- June 26th, 2024, 1:11 pm
- Forum: Technical Forum
- Topic: Does anyone (else) have a telescoping 20 that they actually telescope?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14804
Re: Does anyone (else) have a telescoping 20 that they actually telescope?
I really do need some guidance here, because I'm a pathetic sissyboy who's never had to deal with the realities of a boat this big (i.e. too wide to trailer). How do I step the mast? This wasn't much of a challenge with the SC19; I built a gin pole that holds the (hand) winch, and winch to a lifting...
- June 24th, 2024, 10:37 pm
- Forum: Technical Forum
- Topic: Does anyone (else) have a telescoping 20 that they actually telescope?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14804
Re: Does anyone (else) have a telescoping 20 that they actually telescope?
Jonathan, It has been a long, long time since I put together a telescoping 20 but we always did the telescoping in the water. Floated the boat off the trailer in the collapsed configuration and then once it was floating we pulled it apart, and put the beam bolts and dolphin striker sleeve in the fr...
- June 24th, 2024, 3:21 pm
- Forum: Technical Forum
- Topic: Does anyone (else) have a telescoping 20 that they actually telescope?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14804
Does anyone (else) have a telescoping 20 that they actually telescope?
After I fetched this monster last July from Toronto I dropped by Aquarius on the return trip, and Tom told me that there were very few - 50 or 60, I think - of the telescoping boats built. George (the PO) kept it at his club and didn't routinely telescope it, so he just sleeved the gap with sections...
- June 24th, 2024, 2:46 pm
- Forum: Technical Forum
- Topic: Rudder sticking
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17196
Re: Rudder sticking
I'm having the very same problem as I prepare the (very old telescoping) 20 that I got last summer to get wet out here for the first time. I initially made a very strange discovery - that the locking rollers were on a 1/4" SS pin, and not the 3/8" that all other boats use (I can say this w...
- March 2nd, 2024, 4:00 pm
- Forum: Technical Forum
- Topic: It's almost embarrassing to ask this question...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 78148
Re: It's almost embarrassing to ask this question...
Could try - but you'll probably be doing the lower one while the boat's still on its side - not the kind of thing you'd want to be struggling with from the water after the boat's upright again.
- March 1st, 2024, 11:48 pm
- Forum: Technical Forum
- Topic: It's almost embarrassing to ask this question...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 78148
Re: It's almost embarrassing to ask this question...
Yeah, I can see the risk in having the rudders out of control, even for a short time. In my first years cat sailing (>40 ago), I once had the boat come up with the sheets snarled and it quickly left me, heading for the nearest rocky shore. There was little risk to me - that reservoir is small and us...
- March 1st, 2024, 2:31 pm
- Forum: Technical Forum
- Topic: It's almost embarrassing to ask this question...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 78148
Re: It's almost embarrassing to ask this question...
Cool, thanks for the tip - it's a little counterintuitive to be taking more things apart when you're trying to get it (and yourself) back together, but I'll give it a shot. Plus, that just reminded me that I need to inventory my Avibank pin needs across various boats and get the required parts en ro...
- February 28th, 2024, 3:07 pm
- Forum: Technical Forum
- Topic: It's almost embarrassing to ask this question...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 78148
It's almost embarrassing to ask this question...
But how do you climb back up onto one of these things after righting it? I (finally) turned the 19 over last summer - I wrote about it on beachcats, and I think it's a pretty funny story, especially if you're Jewish. The bottom line is that I was staggered by how well the righting system works - you...
- November 6th, 2021, 9:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 19 wire traveler conversion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 27659
Re: 19 wire traveler conversion
Had a few exchanges with Tom. He quoted me a conversion kit, but it's just the traveler/track/hardware (I think - he didn't supply a BOM) and none of the other stuff needed, particularly the tramp extrusion, since he said he hasn't done this in 27 (?) years. So I checked with my local shop, Glenmore...
- October 14th, 2021, 12:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 19 wire traveler conversion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 27659
Re: 19 wire traveler conversion
Recommendation for bolt rope track would be welcome. The fasteners seizing is an avoidable problem. I'm thinking that the recutting of the tramp and stitching in the bolt rope involves noncritical dimensions, as it'll still be tensioned up with the forward crossbeam lacing. I'm sure there are some g...