Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Trailer questions

[MerlinSub@t-online.de (Carsten Standfuß)]

Hi Dale, Carsten here

I have some expirence with differnce trailer, ramps, and beaches - also
with sunken cars..

First time I use a normal european size car and a normal one axel
trailer. It works on some
ramps - if they new and in good condition and not so much slippery. 

Later I add a extension about 5 m (16feet) long made from a broken
aluminium sailing boat mast
(very, very cheap - they were happy that I want them..) 
with the coupler (one for the car side one for the trailer side) on both
side. Not heavy and 
simple to use. The extension works also on flat beaches if you have to
push the boat/trailer in deeper
water.

But today : 
For flat beaches with sand bottom the "Pat" system is better - we add
also a car-weel as trike-weel
in the front of the trailer use the part of the car-axis (from scrapp)
which hold the weel. We remove this 
weel from the axis during towing on the road. This weel is very helpfull
if you disconnect your trailer
from the car and use a winch to turn the trailer down a sandbeach. The
normal small weel on the trailer goes on dive station in the sand..
I use a small steel plate with a hole to connect the winch with the
coupler of the car..
Later I found out that is very helpful to have also a coupler at the
front of the car !
This devive is very helpful - the turn around area of car and trailer is
much smaller, the view
to the trailer is much better - very helpful tool if you have a small
parking place, garage or 
a european size ramp. 

The best solution will be no trailer and high speed tank-weels (crawler
or caterpillars) on you sub. 
No trailer and no car nessesary and you can use your sub to drive to
work.. and the money you got from
your car for the sub. 

Carsten. 



VBra676539@aol.com schrieb:
> 
> Dale,
> 
> The only thing I can add to the voice of experience over there in Hawaii is a reminder that the double axle design of George's allows a K-sub to sit more or less squarely over the axles. Pat's tongue wheel is not necessary except on a normal trailer jack to lift the hitch off the ball. The Nautilus looks to have its weight distributed over a much greater length than our boats, giving him a little extra tongue weight and requiring the extra support (right, Pat?) when the trailer is disconnected.
> 
> By comparison, the Ks are so short that the hull itself only has a 16" to 18" overhang front to back, beyond the axle's center to center location. Very handy. All you need to do is shift the thing forward an inch or three to give you a 150ish pound tongue weight and you are ready to rock and roll. Mine tows like a dream at 75mph. They are harder than average to back because the tongue is short, but when you park it in the garage, it will sit almost evenly with no support at all under the tongue so you can heave it around a little bit by hand if you need to.
> 
> Hey, Pat. Day 3 of 84. Sound familiar?
> 
> Vance