Hi all,
I just lifted my M-15 in the garage (mine is a mess unlike those nice photos
you see on the site), and did a bunch of stuff including replacing all the
rusted hardware on the trailer. Which left me with the neked trailer
itself. Now I have the boat back on the trailer but with the new hardware
so that I kinda lost the settings for the bunks and roller heights. The
keel is now on the two forward rollers but the rear roller is not set for
any particular height and I do not know how much weight the bunks should be
carrying. Could anyone give me some rules of thumb for setting the trailer
back up?
Some of the bunch of stuff was dropping the board, doing a little filling
and epoxy paint repair and replacing the line (pendant?) that pulls it up
and down. The advice to pull out the core from a 3/8" line and knot it in
the board slot was fabulous! This really works but I would have never
figure out that was the way to do it. I also benefited from the step by
step of finding the pin, hammering out the pin and getting it all back
together.
I also filled the keel to center board liner gap. Just after I posted a
question about why I had this quarter inch gap where I felt none should be,
Sean posted his repair on Dauntless showing the same thing! So cool. Not
only did that show me what it was (and gave it a name) he showed step by
step how to repair it AND had a seperate posting showing how to work with
the epoxy. This made things too easy. Thank you Sean!
This was the first I worked on the boat (or really any boat) and I just
wanted to thank everyone that has contributed. It was a just a huge help!
And yes I will throw some $ at the MSOG site since the epoxy was $70.00, the
trailer parts $200.00 and the web sites, priceless.
Robbin
'81 M-15 w/o name
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