Trailering with boom connected to mast?

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KayakDan
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Post by KayakDan »

Catigale wrote:Whew....Triumph makes it immediately germane to the Towing Forum...

:wink:
As a former Triumph TR3A owner,I'm obligated to defend the honor of the Standard Triumph Motor Co Ltd.
I drove my then 20 yo TR3A 2400 miles from MA to Newfoundland and back without incident(Ok,I broke an exhaust hanger venturing off road-my fault!)
Of course I'm obligated to mention it took 2 years and thousands of dollars to get to that point! :D
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Yeah, I was gonna let that one pass, Dan.... I figure any car still running and looking that good since 1949 didn't need her honor defending.... the old girl speaks for herself! :D :D

Besides, with her ultra-low 1st gear, 16" wheels and long-stroke 2-litre Ferguson tractor engine**, she could pull most of these guy's old boats out of a 30 foot well! 8)



(**The same Standard-Triumph engine used in the Renown and all of the TR2, 3 & 4 cars was also used in the Ferguson Tractor.)
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Yeah,if I still had the 3A,I'd be using it tow the 26M.
Top down of course,for aerodynamics! :D
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Post by Frank C »

c130king wrote:Follow-up:

I don't know about stressing the goose neck. Mine seems to work just fine. What would one look for...cracks?
The gooseneck itself is pretty sturdy. Mine is just a short length of stainless pipe with a thru-bolt cross-drilled at each end. But the gooseneck casting (of aluminum?) is a shouldered cap that inserts within the forward ID of the boom. Unfortunately the shoulder inserts by only a short distance ... maybe 3/8" ... which means the thru-bolt holding it within the boom has very little shoulder material to bite. This internal shoulder area is where mine has been broken, two different times. Next time I'll just try fabbing a front cap for the boom.
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To be honest due to the way the PO rigged the boat, the fact that I have not even owned it a month yet, and the fact that I keep the boat trailered about 2 hours from my home (and only go down to sail...not do a lot of work on the boat), I haven't even taken the sails off the boat yet and really given everything a good inspection.

I sit on this site and read just about everything to learn more about sailing and the boat itself.

And I have learned that I have some of the issues that other sailors on this site seem to have in regards to the sail luff not getting tight (with the halyard as tight as I can pull it...haven't tried using the winch yet).

Plus the sail itself and the sail slugs look they could use a cleaning to get them back to a nice bright white (a little grungy looking).

So I will be bringing the boat back to the house in a month or so to enable me to actually derig (which should be really interesting since I have never done this before and never even seen it done :) )and clean everything really good. This will give me a chance to really look at the gooseneck and check for cracks and wear. Might take that opportunity to add a few things as well (Windex for one, cunningham cringle for another).

Thanks again to all for all the knowledge on this board.

Jim
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