TRailer board
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Topic: TRailer board
Posted By: vernonr
Subject: TRailer board
Date Posted: 08 Mar 06 at 9:22pm
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Just about to purchase a dinghy for the first time. Should I look for a trailer board which is designed specially for sailing dinghies, or get a general purpose one :?
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 08 Mar 06 at 9:41pm
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A lot of people I know get general-purpose boards but put a longer electric cable on it. The trailer itself should have some kind of securing points. Alternatively, you could affix your board to a short plank equipped with pins that fit neatly in the rudder pin holes (I still can't remember what they're supposed to be called). It depends on the anatomy of your boat, of course. Whatever you do, don't try this at home:
------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 08 Mar 06 at 9:44pm
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2 words - DUCK TAPE
------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 08 Mar 06 at 9:50pm
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I drove back from deepest darkest wales with my board ducktaped on
(still havnt figured out how to atatch it properly) so anything will
do... If you get a specific sailing one chances are it wont be any different from a normal one but at double the price. Just be a bit inventive on how you attatch it (most people mount it on a board that clips into the rudder pintles on the boat as per BnSs post) ------------- |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 08 Mar 06 at 10:16pm
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Caravan centres will often have boards with a 6m cable attached, as do Motorsave. I believe that it should have a fog light to be legal, but I've never found one with one... ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 08 Mar 06 at 10:45pm
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You ought to get one of the wider ones that have reflective triangles on.
Neatest trick I did with a light board was to glue foam rubber about 4 inches thick on the back... |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 08 Mar 06 at 10:56pm
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the best one i heard was to aquire one of the road works plastic boards they make great catamaran lighting boards! ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: Olly4088
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 7:53pm
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I found one of those in my quiver bag that I keep my sails in after a very drunken week in abersoch ------------- Phantom 1298 |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 8:41pm
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If you buy a normal (wide) board you can buy a fitting from Rooster/LDC etc that fits on the pintles on the boat and has a mast cradle, which just self taps onto the lighting board. NB the trailer boards from motoring shops come in at least 2 widths, and you must get one wide enough! ------------- |
Posted By: 29er397
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 8:51pm
| or you could do wot im doing and fashoin your own thing to fit the lighting board onto the pintels (GCSE tech project). fitting one onto a 29er is a knitmare!!!! |
Posted By: Olly4088
Date Posted: 10 Mar 06 at 8:22am
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I have found the easiest way is to drill a hole in the bottom and top sides of the lighting board and then just putting it onto the bottom pintle and put an bolt in the top and it doesnt move an inch. My friend has made some massive thing with flashing bike lights attached to two plumbing tubes coming of his lighting board for his national 12 it looks like something that fell of a UFO ------------- Phantom 1298 |
Posted By: russell
Date Posted: 10 Mar 06 at 8:41am
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My P&B top cover has straps at the back for holding your lighting board on, very handy. ------------- Russell Phantom 1330 59er 090 |
Posted By: tack'ho
Date Posted: 21 Mar 06 at 8:46am
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is that where your Granny gives you a rubbish wollen jumper for xmas and makes your wear it out! ------------- I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e! |
Posted By: russell
Date Posted: 21 Mar 06 at 9:15am
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I have mounted my mast support at one end of my trailer board so I can pass it through the rudder stock on the 59er - I think the 29er is the same. Seems to work well, I have just had to add some extra padding at the bottom of the mast support because it would rub the transom/hull edge. ------------- Russell Phantom 1330 59er 090 |