What Trailer
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Topic: What Trailer
Posted By: AlanG
Subject: What Trailer
Date Posted: 26 Jan 06 at 9:35pm
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We'll be getting a Feva shortly but, being new to the sport, were looking for a bit of advice regarding the trailer. We live close enough to a slipway onto the Thames to be able to pull the dinghy without the need for a car. Would a launching trolley be robust enough or should we go for proper road trailer? Also, would a trolley be good enough for when the dinghy is out of the water, or do we need chocks? Any advice appreciated....
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Posted By: redback
Date Posted: 26 Jan 06 at 10:23pm
| It sounds like you can dispense with the expense and weight of a road trailer. No need for chocks but you might want to tie it down so that you can sleep easy on a windy night, and have you thought about security. |
Posted By: Sarah B
Date Posted: 26 Jan 06 at 10:26pm
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If you live close enough to be able to pull the boat by hand back home, then don't bother with a road trailer. They aren't cheap. However if you think you might want to take the boat on hols, or you catch the sailing bug and want to sail at different places, a trailer makes it so much easier. I pull my boat up the hill at home with someone driving and me in the boot holding onto my boat on it's launching trolley! (Not recommended though.) A trolley is perfectly adequate once the boat is out of the water. To keep the bow up I rest my boat on an old chair, or a pile of tyres is good enough too. ------------- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. |
Posted By: Ian29937
Date Posted: 26 Jan 06 at 11:27pm
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.... and the Feva can be roofracked on those holiday occasions. Have fun and good sailing Ian |
Posted By: AlanG
Date Posted: 27 Jan 06 at 9:22am
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Thanks everyone for the advice (Sarah, I'm a bit concerned.... I have this image of the boot slamming shut with you still in it!!!) Hadn't thought about security... wheel clamp, padlocks and chains next on shopping list.
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Posted By: redback
Date Posted: 27 Jan 06 at 11:15pm
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No, you probably don't need to worry too much about the boat. Its the little things that go - for instance the bung. But the other worry is vandalism - boat covers that are ripped are a pain and even a missing bung can stop you going sailing. Wheel clamps are a bit over the top but consider where you are keeping it and how vulnerable it is. If like me you keep the boat in a locked club compound and its remote from centres of population then you would be OK to leave everything in the boat although you'd probably find the insurance puts some limits on that. If on the other hand the boat is left close to a public footpath and there is no fence then I would suggest you remove all lose components like sails and foils and run a chain through the centreboard case and secure it to something. In a rural setting I always remove the spinnaker and dacron sails if your boat uses them because rodents like to chew them up to make bedding. Mylar seem imune. |
Posted By: Sarah B
Date Posted: 28 Jan 06 at 9:34pm
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Fear not Alan - the boot hasn't shut on me yet!
------------- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. |
Posted By: ssailor
Date Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 2:36pm
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Are you planning on buying this feva brand new? I have a year old one
for sale without the road base, its has had little use as It didnt suit
my old man as well as he thought it would! its the xl pack so its got
the jib and spinnaker included if you want to use them. We didnt buy it with a road trailer and have never needed one! Oh yeh and dont worry I havent sailed it, too busy breaking my I14  If you want more info Email me at sun_sand_sail@yahoo.co.uk  ------------- Any one in need of quality carbon fibre work (tillers etc) at decent prices! Int 14 Gbr 1244 'Nucking Futs' The New Port rule!!. |
Posted By: Chew my RS
Date Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 4:15pm
Sage advice. That happened to my spinnaker and the insurance wouldn't pay out. Must be the expensive mouse nest in England... |
Posted By: Garry
Date Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 4:33pm
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Alan, I would go with just the trolley if you live near enough to drag it back home, you can always borrow (or hire) a trailer for the occasional jaunt further afield.
If you're going to leave the boat in the garden with the mast up I would recommend putting something in the ground to tie it down to and you could then use a chain to padlock the boat and trolley securely. That will meet your insurance requirements and also prevent someone easily making off with your boat. ------------- Garry Lark 2252, Contender 298 www.cuckoos.eclipse.co.uk |
Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 8:48pm
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Yeah you will want to use something like a tent ground peg which you can screw into the ground, and are very difficult to get out (unless screwed out obviously). look like giant bottle openers ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 8:54pm
Oh that made me chortle... ------------- |