OK, excellent idea. Here is a link to a blog post of mine with some photos. They may not be good enough or close enough for you to tell...but if you click on the photos they come up in the browser, and then if you click again they zoom in. http://danielsailingandcycling.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/thoughts-about-cycli... Daniel On 7/9/2012 3:01 PM, W David Scobie wrote:
Daniel:
"There is no other extra weight forward in the boat." ...
glad you moved the gold bars out of the M15's bow for trailering ;-) lol
not sure exactly your trailers axle assembly design, but if it is like the other 'about' 2005 Pacific trailers you can adjust the axle's location fairly easily. i posted how to do this on the trailersailor.com M-forum -
http://bbs.trailersailor.com/forums/montgomery/index.cgi?read=3881
if you are not sure you can attach a picture of the trailer's axle-to-frame assembly to your listproc message (image must be <200K in size i believe). i can look to see if the same as the trailers i'm working with.
:: Dave Scobie
--- On Mon, 7/9/12, Daniel Rich <danielgrich@gmail.com> wrote:
I definitely cannot do that. I will go out and weigh it again tonight or tomorrow and report back. If too heavy it sounds like I would need to shift the boat back a bit on the trailer. Not sure how far or how to do that. I would have to move the bow support aft. It is a Pacific Trailer build for Bob Becker in about 2005. So, it is made for the M15. There is no other extra weight forward in the boat.
Daniel
On 7/9/2012 2:43 PM, W David Scobie wrote:
i can lift, with my legs, the tongue on the Glessers' new M15 trailer. the 'theoretical' weight of the tongue should be about 120# (+/- a few pounds depending on boat differences).
200# is _way_heavy_. not sure what your trailer's declared weight is, but the one i have is 350#. the M15, dry and no personal stuff, is about 750(ish) #. tongue weight should be between 10% and 15% of trailer + boat.
:: Dave Scobie
--- On Mon, 7/9/12, Daniel Rich <danielgrich@gmail.com> wrote:
OK, interesting. As an aside, does 200 pounds at the ball mount sound about right for this trailer?