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Bill Arden
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Initially Posted - 05/24/2007 : 14:33:41

How can you tell a trailerable boat by looking at it?

Bugs on the bottoms of the spreaders...

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ilnadi
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Response Posted - 05/24/2007 : 20:43:23

it's sitting on a trailer

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 05/24/2007 : 20:53:31

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Bill Arden
 How can you tell a trailerable boat by looking at it?

Bugs on the bottoms of the spreaders...

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Only if they put the mast on the deck with the step forward!

Was this just a joke and a punchline or was it a serious question?

By the way - wrap your mast in cheap plastic wrap. For 3 dollars you can wrap the entire thing. No bugs! Take a kitchen mop and straght dish soap and soap the hull too. When you get to your destination hose it off and the road bucks, tar and gravel will come with it too.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 05/24/2007 : 21:24:05

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ilnadi
 it's sitting on a trailer

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Bzzzack... Wrong!

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Bill Arden
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Response Posted - 05/24/2007 : 22:21:25

OK, OK - It was a joke and a punchline. But it was based on factual observation

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 05/25/2007 : 05:33:08

As long as this post is going nowhere...here is a little boring story about my experience with trailerable sailboats.

My first sailboat that I purchased new was a 13' Banshee. I used to sail it out of Wantagh Park on Long Island. I bought a small dolly that would slide up the dagger board channel and then i could launch it without driving my trailer down to the water's edge. Only prob;lem with that is...you have to remember to put the dolly back in the car once you maneuver the boat by hand back onto the trailer in the parking lot. One time, i forgot to pick up the dolly. I remembered this 15 min utes later while driving back home. When I got back to the park...the dolly was gone.

One day after sailing and preparing to go home, there was this older gentleman down by the ramp area with a Luger 16. he asked me if i wanted to buy his boat. He wanted peanuts for it and it looked in excellent shape. I thought that this baot would give me potential to bring others onbaord and since I was getting more interested in bringing a girlfriend onboard, figured a more stable boat would perhaps be the next step. (The Banshee was more for performance sailing having to hike out all the time.) I gave him a small deposit and was going to finalize the arrangement in the next day or so.

When i got home, i researched info on the Luger 16 and discovered it was a boat built from a kit. My initial thought on this was negative and so i called up and discussed this with the guy and was considering backing out of the deal. but the guy had already changed his mind anyway and so i went to pick up my deposit. It turns out this "grandfather" was annoyed that his grandchildren, etc were not going sailing with him and so on the spurr of the moment that is why he was going to sell the boat. But when he got home, they all complained about selling the boat and so he gave me my deposit back. By this time, i was going to go thru with the deal...it was a good deal but...it was now off the table.

As it turns out...some time later, i saw another Luger 16..this one advertized in Newsday (The Long Island paper) and I wound up buying that Luger for considerably more. I had that boat for a number of years and girlfriends. It served it's purpose well. I wound up after seasonally docking it at a (mostly ODay sailboat) marina in Lindenhurst, Long Island (south shore).

Then ..after getting married..(by the way first official date was to the boat show in the Nassau Coliseum), we eventually sold the Luger 16, got my ODay23 - nver trailered it and docked in on the north shore in Huntington Harbor.

I never owned a car or van with sufficient towing capacity for the bigger boats. The Banshee...I towed with a '72 Pinto and...forget what I towed the Luger with but it was not the Pinto.

For me...you could tell a trailerable boat by which channel it was heading into...especially if it was one that had a park with ramps, trailers and spectators watching the action.

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tinob
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Response Posted - 05/25/2007 : 07:36:44

Hi Larry,

I just have to ask of a person who has sailed Long Island's north and south shores, which did you prefer?

I was always envious of those on the north shore for their deep waters and vastness of sailing potential.

Val on Calista, #3936, Patchogue, N.Y.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 05/25/2007 : 08:23:41

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by tinob
 ...I was always envious of those on the north shore for their deep waters and vastness of sailing potential.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Then there're the doldrums of July, August and September on Long Island Sound... similar to the Chesapeake, except they seem to have more thunderstorms. (Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of terror.)

As for vastness, Val, once you clear Fire Island, there's Spain, Africa, the Mediterranean,...

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 05/25/2007 : 08:43:22

Val,

The areas that I was familiar with on the south shore were: sailing from Wantagh Park off the ramp and also from docks in both Lindenhurst and Amityville (Marina was on same block as the Amityville Horror House - the original) and sailing in the adjacent areas and under the bridges to the Great South Bay and to the Jones Beach beach areas. That was sailing a Flying Junior, Banshee and Luger 16.
On North Shore it was out of Huntington with an ODay 23 and all waters 15 miles or West and east to Port Jefferson and across to Connecticut.

The South Shore is ideal for small sailboats especially in the waters where I sailed which were much further west or Patchogue. This is because there were many areas where the water went down to basically 6" or zippo and you could get out and drag the boat if need be. A small sailboat could also get under the bridges.

But the North Shore is serious sailing with the big boys. This is where a Power Squadron Course and navigational rules, charts and course correction are valuable. There so many nice areas to go on the North Shore but it is also a very wide body of water that is subject to varied sea conditions depending on wind and storms that may arise. Any sailboat from 22' and larger and I would say the North Shore is the place to be.

But possibly if you mainly sail in the Great South Bay, then that would be acceptable for mid-size sailboats as well. I had to deal with bridges and there is no way you could get under them with anything other than a small sailboat. I remember one time going under a bridge and soon after decided to head back before the tide may make it hard for me to get back without dropping the mast...I bridge attendant did not see me pass under (I suspect) but when i came back, he saw me and blew his horn probably that i not approach. I went under and just slightly grazed the bridge support...but I made it !
Those bridges would be a hassle for larger sailboats...not sure how often they would open up for boats.

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