Jan 19. Fitting the Boat on the Trailer

I have no pictures of rolling the boat over and moving it out into the driveway. Too bad, because it was kind of a cool process. I happened to have a couple of 2' X 3' dollies, high in one side, I made to roll the 28 ft wing of the mooney mite (http://bzmite.blogspot.com/?m=1). They were sitting out in the rain for years and the first one broke when I rolled the boat over onto it by my lonesome. I thought I was going to get the boat out by myself but then the dolly split. The screws pulled right through the wet wood. So I reinforced the second one and that held when we rolled the boat up onto it on its side. 

The vertical boat on the dolly rolled easily out into the drive where we rolled it off the dolly and onto its bottom on the concrete. Then me and Kenny just grabbed it by the side rails and hucked it up onto the trailer. The thing must weigh only 200 or 250 lb. I'll have to weigh it to see. I was trying to get it done by myself, but then Kenny rolled up just in the nick of time to prevent injury due to stupidity. 

I needed the boat on the partially completed trailer to determine where the side bunks should go. And while it was there, I placed the trailer behind the van to determine the necessary length of the trailer tongue. 8" shorter should be fine and the door of the van will still clear the boat by 8". 

Here is a picture of the plans I drew up in 5 minutes for this trailer. It actually turned out pretty close to the design. 

This is the first time I've been able to see the boat from more than 3 ft away. So here are a few shots from various angles to see how it looks. 

There's Kenny taking pictures of the boat from the other side. 

From the rear quarter. The curves of this boat look pretty good from just about any angle.