Association Forum - WK on the trailer

Assn Members Area · Join

Home.

Association Forum

Ships Store

Cruising

Racing

Technical Tips

Photo Gallery - New

Boat Search - Updated

Manuals & Brochures

Swap Meet

Links

Officer Flag Line & Staff

Bylaws & Constitution

Members Area

Join the Association

Notice:
The advice given on this site is based upon individual or quoted experience, yours may differ.
The Officers, Staff and members of this site only provide information based upon the concept that anyone utilizing this information does so at their own risk and holds harmless all contributors to this site.

Association Forum

Username:	Password:
Save Password
Forgot your Password?

All Forums

Catalina/Capri 25/250 Sailor's Forums

Catalina 250 Specific Forum

WK on the trailer

New Topic

Topic Locked

Printer Friendly

Author

Topic

Tom Potter
Master Marine Consultant

Member Avatar

USA
1913 Posts

Initially Posted - 09/11/2004 : 19:26:32

I've been looking at 250's to buy and leaning toward the WK. I have seen pictures of the WB on a trailer but not a WK. Does anyone have a picture of thier WK on a trailer? Are they much harder to launch?

1997 250 TR WK (sold)
1984 O'Day 28 (sold)
1979 SISU 22
Bath, NC.

Edited by - on

Ben - FL
Admiral

Members Avatar

880 Posts

Response Posted - 09/11/2004 : 21:47:47

I don't know about any harder to launch, but you do need a ramp with plenty of depth. My wk draws 3-4 and the trailer adds to that. The water is usually deep enough, just the ramp is not long enough. Once that dig bamn trailer goes off the end you won't be getting it back up. I have pictures on the web somewhere from when I trailered to south Floirda and sailed to the Bimini Islands. It's been over a year so let me see if I can find them.

Try this...
[url="http://groups.aol.com/_cqr/tsbiminibunch?mmch_=0"]Bimini Bunch photos[/url]

Edited by - Ben - FL on 09/11/2004 22:04:27

bren737
Captain

Members Avatar

291 Posts

Response Posted - 09/11/2004 : 23:35:31

Try this link to the '250 Tech Tips'section of the forum. Doug's got a great breakdown on how he launches his boat, with pics: http://www.catalina25-250.org/tech/tech250/fortu.html

Edited by - on

Alan Therrien
Navigator

Members Avatar

USA
113 Posts

Response Posted - 09/13/2004 : 18:44:01

Tom,

I bought a great trailer from Triad Trailers in Connecticut. I store the boat on the trailer off season, and truck the boat to the marina for launching each spring.

I have the marina use the travel lift to launch or haul out, so I can not comment on the facility of trailer launching the wing keel. The boat sits fairly high on the trailer, so I doubt it would be very easy. I save enough boat units by storing the boat on the trailer and trucking it myself to and from the marina to pay for the launch costs.

Sorry I can't be more help.

Edited by - on

Tom Potter
Master Marine Consultant

Members Avatar

USA
1913 Posts

Response Posted - 09/26/2004 : 23:09:33

I like the setup with the spare wheel on the front of the trailer that drops down, for the rope launch. Does anyone have pictures or info on how to build or buy one. I would like to see how its made and installed.

Edited by - on

Robert
1st Mate

Members Avatar

USA
75 Posts

Response Posted - 09/27/2004 : 10:52:20

TomPotter;
Trail-rite trailers makes one of these devices that is bolted on the trailer. I have been looking at one for a couple years.It has been one of those things that never gets done. I have seen a home made ones used on a Catalina 27 but the trail-rite is slick and not all that expensive. Check out their web site.
Robert

Edited by - on

BJ Wagner
1st Mate

Members Avatar

USA
50 Posts

Response Posted - 09/27/2004 : 15:36:27

The last time I spoke with Trail-Rite about building one for me, they told me that they had never done one for a 250 trailer before, but it would be in the range of $400-500.00 without the tire and rim. I ended up using an eight inch wheel with a heavy duty caster frame and it works fine.

Edited by - on

Robert
1st Mate

Members Avatar

USA
75 Posts

Response Posted - 09/28/2004 : 12:14:24

The last price check that I did was last year, but I must have checked the price on a smaller unit. The home made unit that I saw looked like a bracket that was welded to the front of the trailer and it had a 4" pipe welded through it. The next size smaller pipe was inserted through the 4" pipe and it appeared to be at least 32" inches long and it had a bracket and some kind of an auto wheel spindel welded on it. A trailer wheel mounted on the spindel. The wheel was lifted and lowered by hand by sliding the wheel assembly and pipe up and down. It was locked in place by a large through bolt that extended through a series of prespaced holes. The system was used on a fixed keel Catalina 27 and it worked great. The one draw back was that the trailer could not be turned so it had to be lined up perfectly. The trailer was not connected to the tow vehicle. It was chocked and then let down the ramp and pulled out on a 50 foot heavy duty webbed strap that was connected to the trailer and tow vehicle. I hope this make sense. Good luck!

Edited by - on

aeckhart
Master Marine Consultant

Members Avatar

USA
1709 Posts

Response Posted - 10/02/2004 : 11:49:28

Tom,

My C25T wing keel trailer came with a tongue extension that extends the trailer an addiotnal 10 feet into the water. I haven't had a problem launching in 15 years, even with the low water conditions on the Great Lakes. It's very easy to extend and retrieve. You have a steep learning curve remembering to uncouple the break line and wiring harness

..... speaking from experience of course. The company that made my trailer is no longer in business. Perhaps Triad can fabricate one for less than the tire thing.

Al
C25T
GALLIVANT #5801

Edited by - on

ClamBeach
Master Marine Consultant

Members Avatar

3072 Posts

Response Posted - 10/04/2004 : 15:16:53

From the Mac 25 site "The Wild Hair", a very clever trailer tongue extension.

http://hcgiles.home.mindspring.com/trailermods.htm

Ny EZ loader has a very simple sliding variant with no welding required, probably the same as Al describes in the post above. It's just steel cut to length and bolted. If you PM me I can send you pictures. Dunno if it would work on your trailer or not.

I can't imagine launching without one.

Edited by - on

BJ Wagner
1st Mate

Members Avatar

USA
50 Posts

Response Posted - 10/05/2004 : 10:04:22

I use a 40' 3/4" line to launch my 250 wk. I might be able to get by with 20 to 30 feet but then my wheels and axle of the tow vehicle would be down in the water and I would prefer not to do that.

Edited by - on

Tom Potter
Master Marine Consultant

Members Avatar

USA
1913 Posts

Response Posted - 10/05/2004 : 20:57:56

Brad,
Do you use a special wheel set up on the front of your trailer? By the way I did buy the 250 WK 2 weeks ago. I bought the the 1997 WK/TR listed on this site. I launched it last weekend using the rope launch method. I have her in a slip at the lake but plan to pull her out in about a month to drop the mast to install roller furling and a VHF. Do you have any tips for retrieveing the boat using the rope method?

Edited by - on

Topic

New Topic

Topic Locked

Printer Friendly

Jump To:

Association Forum

Notice: The advice given on this site is based upon individual or quoted experience, yours may differ.
The Officers, Staff and members of this site only provide information based upon the concept that anyone utilizing this information does so at their own risk and holds harmless all contributors to this site.