Re: P15 owners with Garges trailer

happy life skills foundation (hapilife@efn.org)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 02:13:41 -0700 (PDT)

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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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My 15 is a 1988 so perhaps this won't apply but my tongue weight is 42
lbs...and I can lift the tongue of the trailer up with one arm...145 lbs
sounds really heavy for a boat that only weighs 475. Even with equipment,
like a motor, it sounds out of balance. I plan on carrying my motor in the
bed of my PU, the only gear that will be in the boat itself will be the
mast, shrouds, rudder/tiller, sails, boom. I think I'll stick the anchor
in the PU bed too. I don't know about this garges trailer but mine seems
to stow the boat in a pretty balanced way...good luck!
Ken Silverman, p-15 "Vegan Lorax"

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Lars S. Mulford wrote:

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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> East Coasties and Web Gang:
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> I'd like to know what the tongue weight is of folks who have 1994 or
> newer P15s with the Garges trailer. I weighed mine today (using,
> admittedly, a questionable digital scale) and am showing 145lbs tongue
> weight. That seems WAY too much for this size boat and trailer. Thing
> is, the tongue is pretty short and there isn't much further to go back
> with the winch mast..
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> What tongue weights are you folks registering out there, and how have
> you been able to successfully lower it? I certainly do not want to
> duplicate experiences with my Bonneville that I shared earlier.
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> --
> "Sea" ya!
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> --Lars S. Mulford, President
> East Coast Potter Association (ECPA)
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