Would like to kick around ideas for trailering a 10 foot wide Cat. Mine is a Tornado, but the trailer tilting and mast raising is what I'm working on, so if anybody has one of those really wide boats, I would very much like to hear from you!

I'm using a jin pole arrangement and it works for both the trailer tilting and mast raising, but still pretty dangerous on the trailer tilting part .

You can email directly to me at ewew921@gmail.com

Earl White

http://thebeachcats.com/pictures/?g2_itemId=11313

I'm sure Tami will reply to this.

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Ron
Nacra F18
Reservoir Sailing Assn.
Brandon, Mississippi
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Attach 2" diameter garage door springs via short chains to underside of frame & hooked to tilt table. My daughter & I can bring it down. Should be able to throw mast up yourself. Where are you? Pete



Edited by pbegle on Jul 30, 2011 - 09:05 PM.

Need some pics, but the first example which has the boat upside down wouldn't work for me. the parking lot would get too crowded, and the mast doesn't seem to have a home?

To pbegle - Need some pics if you have them I'm sure that the geometry of my trailer is all wrong to make raising and lowering an easy task. Maybe yours is the ticket, but I would have to see it. My trailer has 4 inch garage door springs on it but it's still too heavy! If the springs were strong enough to lift the boat and all, then when you launched you would have to tie it down to keep the springs from flipping the trailer up when the boat came off??

P.S. I'm in North Idaho

So I guess tis won't work for you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8JrczKBzyA

Here's one that's not upside down.
http://www.pbase.com/d30/full_tilt_trailer

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Ron
Nacra F18
Reservoir Sailing Assn.
Brandon, Mississippi
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Buddy of mine considered a tilting trailer but instead takes his Tornado apart. Says that with tilting trailers you have to be really careful of crosswinds since there is so much surface area and the boat is so light. Definitely has an impact on setup time, but better than picking up parts on the side of the highway.

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Jeff R
'88 H18 "Jolly Mon"
'10 C2 USA1193
NE IN / SE MI
cramsailing.com
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http://thebeachcats.com/pictures/?g2_itemId=11313

As Ron said, I'd chime in.

The pictured is Dave Tilley's tilting trailer design. It's very clever. The rack is winched over and you tie the boat to the beams. Read this to mean: NO TRAILER CRUSH. Then the boat is winched up and over and away you go. The mast goes over the boat. See picture below, yellow boat in bgrd has mast aboard trailer

The wheelbase has been widened to max legal IIRC 8'6" Like the catamaran, the wheelbase ensures stability and the way the rack carries the boat is low'ish to the road.

The rig is stable. I've carried my Square for prolly thousands of miles b/forth between Houston and Ocean Springs and the only thing it's done is one day in a 30kt crosswind the trailer fishtailed but it has never EVER lifted. Ever since, if I think the wind will be high I'll strip my trampoline back (I have a Perkins style tramp on my Sq).

The rack is bolted to a stock multihull trailer frame and its axle was widened. Simple to fabricate.

You could pull it behind a big RV or a pickup with a large slide in camper. When being pulled behind a really wide vehicle the 10' width does not stand out and you may be able to get away with pulling it sitting flat on a trailer. I have seen it done before with a H21SE, which is 10' wide and has big looking hulls. Looks huge behind a normal vehicle but looks normal when pulled behind a really wide vehicle. You are in violation, but depending on where you tow and how often it might not be an issue.

Our Supercat 20 was 12' wide but telescoped back down to 8.5' to allow trailering.

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Scott,
‘92 H18 w/SX wings
‘95 Hobie Funseeker 12 (Holder 12)
‘96/‘01/‘14 Hobie Waves
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