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Posted by Phil on 9/1/2006, 8:04 am, in reply to "Trailering: What is the easiest or most elegant way to transport the boom?" If you'll be trailering frequently, you'll want to find ways to reduce rigging/derigging times. Leave as many lines etc in place as possible. Leave the mainsheet attached to the boom, and just drop the boom off the gooseneck and into the cockpit. You'll likely have to also disconnect the boomvang from either the boom or the butt of the mast (me, I clip the vang to the bottom of the mast with an extremely heavy duty hook... don't even have to take the time to undo a shackle then when pulling the mast). As you rig/derig each time, start asking yourself how you can reduce time & effort - look for systems you can simplify. --Previous Message--
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The boom should remain in the cockpit of the boat... yes, its a few inches too long, but easily solved if you can poke it into the inspection port of the aft bulkhead (or of the foreward bulkhead). Put some padding around it.
: By "elegant", I mean in
: engineer's terms - simplest, least
: complex and most effective.
:
: I borrowed my son's Dodge 3500 truc
: last weekend. Huge pick-up, but the
: boom still stuck out the end of the
: box, a bit sideways. With my Dodge
: Dakota short-box, the boom will
: stick out even more - and would rub
: on the metal side of the box.
:
: Is there a neat way to carry it
: parallel to the mast somehow? My
: mast rides on two pipes that stick
: up, one at each end of the trailer,
: with a U-shaped cradle for the mast
: at the top of each. Has anyone come
: up with some sort of double cradle,
: for mast AND boom?
:
: Thanks again.
:
: John
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