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TRogers
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Initially Posted - 03/03/2004 :  22:58:34  Show Profile
In prepping for my haul out of my FIXED(FIN?) keel C25, I was just reading through the owner's manual and noted a comment that this type of C25 should be hauled out or launched by a sling as opposed to floating it on or off the trailer.

Thinking about it about, I think I can convince myself why this would be true. If this is an absolute, I may have just saved myself some grief by reading the instructions (always a good idea).

What are other owner's thoughts/experience with this?
Tom Rogers
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Spokane, WA
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 03/04/2004 :  00:24:07  Show Profile
Tom, I have a TRFK and she has always been hauled and splashed from/to the trailer. Admittedly, it's only been two episodes in 12 years but there was no problem either time.
Derek
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lcharlot
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Response Posted - 03/04/2004 :  00:30:31  Show Profile
It is possible to ramp launch/retrieve a C-25 fin keel boat if you have 30 feet of 5/8" chain, and a 2000# capacity caster wheel on the trailer tongue. It works like this:
1. Park the trailer at the bottom of the ramp, lined up on the dock.
2. Chock the wheels carefully with BIG chocks that you are sure won't slip.
3. Uncouple the trailer and move the tow vehicle 30' up the ramp.
4. Connect the trailer to the tow hitch with the chain and take up the slack enough to get the chocks out.
5. Back down until the trailer is deep enough to float the boat onto it.
6. Secure the boat's bow pad eye to the traile winch and move the tow vehicle and trailer slowly, a litt way up, checking to make sure the boat stays centered over the support pads or bunks.
7. If the boat is still centered, keep moving up until the boat is firmly resting on the hull supports, then haul out the rest of the way.
8. At the top of the ramp, park again, chock the wheels, remove the chain, re-couple the trailer to the tow vehicle, and you are on your way.

There are a couple of Santana 20's in Folsom Lake Dry Storage that the owners have to do this every time they race, and it's no big deal if done slowly and carefully.
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Gary B.
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Response Posted - 03/04/2004 :  01:41:03  Show Profile
Tom, I have a swinger, but about a year ago, I helped Alice Patten launch her fin from a trailer on a ramp....(it was NOT too steep, nor deep, so it was challenging. The odd part, she has a beautiful, custom trailer with a 40' tongue extension. Yup, that's right. One 20' tube nests inside another one that slides out. We needed every bit of it that day.

The problem is the depth you need to reach in order to ramp launch.

One time, in near desperation, I launced a 23' O'day Tempest with a fin with NO tongue extension; it had rusted in. By the time I was deep enough, the truck bed was under water and I had (fresh) water on the carpeting in the cab. She finally floated free and I gunned the old beater up the ramp to a round of applause as water ran out of the bed and out from the cab doors! I wouldn't do it again, but it was an experience. Luckily, no damage to the old, $1000 Dodge 3/4 ton!

Slings work really well, if you can afford one!

BTW: We have one in Portland, should you change your mind about July.....;) $100 Round trip for the Nationals only....

Gary B.
Fleet 94 Captain
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TRogers
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Response Posted - 03/04/2004 :  14:58:49  Show Profile
I supposte the main issue in doing this with a fin keel is to watch carefully and make sure you don't hang up the keel on anything and make sure it rests properly on the keel support in the trailer.
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 03/04/2004 :  18:38:16  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
The long fiberglass rods with pennants on them that people put on toddler bikes and such do a wonderful job of identifying the trailers boundaries when it is submerged.
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