I went to our local tire store and cadged three old tires from them. Don't
remember what size, but they were larger than the 8" tires on our trailers
<G>. Using the tilt-bed feature of my trailer, I slipped the boat off onto
the tires. I was able to get to either side of the bottom by tipping the
boat one way or the other. This will also work on a non-tilt trailer. Let
me know if you're interested in doing it this way and I may be able to
provide a few more details.
-- dwf
-----Original Message-----
From: happy life skills foundation <hapilife@efn.org>
To: wwpotter@tscnet.com <wwpotter@tscnet.com>
Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 15:09
Subject: Cleaning Hull
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
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>Hi folks!
>
>I've been working on all my little love dings and scratches on my sweet
>little yellow potter 15. It is in the garage on its trailer...
>
>How do I manage to clean and repair portions of the hull that are sitting
>on the trailer itself? I thought about building some kind of 'horses' and
>getting it off of the trailer. Also, I thought of putting some blocks
>around the joists and using straps and suspending it from the garage
>joists (since it is so light).
>
>I know Larry costa has spoken about flipping th boat over onto the pulpit
>etc.... on the lawn...to work on the hull. But this time of year that
>wouldn't work outside and I think maybe it would damage the boat flipping
>it ove in the concrete floored garage!!!
>
>What do you think? It'd be nice to be able to clean reapair, buff, wx the
>entire hull......thanks!
>
>Ken Silverman, p-15 "Vegean Lorax", still wildly sailing out on Lake
>Washington where the wind is just fine and dandy....
>
>PS part of my problem is i keep going out sailing instead of working on
>the boat ha ha ha....
>