I think it’s the quote below. GARY ~~~~_/) ~~~~ Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
On Jun 12, 2016, at 3:22 PM, David Rifkind <drifkind@acm.org> wrote:
On Jun 12, 2016, at 9:31 AM, Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
What's that old saying about bad experiences resulting from lack of experience which then generates good experience????
You mean, good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement? I dunno, I may just be a highly experienced idiot.
I feel like the whole trailer thing isn’t as good as it should be. Mine has to go *way* into the water, using a 14’ chain as an extension, to launch.
I think the boat sits too high, and isn’t helped by the couple of inches I added replacing the rollers. If a ramp has a 12% slope, every 1-1/2” of boat height is another foot down the ramp you have to go. Also, as the stern starts to float, the bow comes down, and at the extreme rests on the spare tire. It seems like, for the boat to go on and off the trailer neatly, it should be closer to level when it’s *on* the ramp. Maybe it should sit with the bow down, or at least lower, on level ground.
On the driveway my boat sits with the bottom of the keel 17” off the ground, and the tip of the prow (for lack of a better point to measure) at 70”. I wonder how that compares to other trailers out there.