How do you take a H16 apart

Our H16 is on a beach where the only access is through trees. It took 4 of us to get it from the trailer to the beach. I can't seem to get a crew together and I need to get it out soon.
I am thinking about taking the tramp off and carrying it up in pieces, but I don't want to get into a major project.

Is it easy to take the tramp frame off the hulls?
Can one person do it?
What about putting it back on? 1 or 2 people? Can you do it on the trailer?

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Alfred
'87 H16 Sail 89907
If you aren't sailing on the edge, you're taking up too much room.

If your boat is old enough, the corner casting may slide off the pylons fairly easily. On new 16's, it takes quite a bit of "persuasion" to get the corner castings fully seated. So removing them would be even more difficult.

We build these boats on the ground. Building them on a trailer would be a lot of extra work.

We use 2 people to build a 16.

Personally, I'd buy help with a case of beer and pizza, before I disassembled a 16.

Does taking a new boat apart cause some wear on the pylons and make the boat less stiff when you reassemble it?

Occasional disassembly (every couple of years) probably won't hurt. But I can't believe doing it often (several times a year) would be good for boat stiffness. We use a large rubber mallet to get these things together.

I'd sail my boat a long, long way before I would take it apart.

In some of the repair posts, they talk about taking the hulls of to work on them as if that was no big deal. That is all I would need to do. I figure I carry each hull and then the tramp frame,
but you guys know a lot more than me and it sounds like I am going to keep having to work on getting a crew together.

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Alfred
'87 H16 Sail 89907
If you aren't sailing on the edge, you're taking up too much room.

It takes about 10 minutes to completely dissassemble a 16. BIG rubber hammer is all you need. And loosen the tramp.
IF your boat is brand new and you're a top of the heap A fleeter, taking your boat apart might cause a little superstitious anxiety with wondering if it went back together exactly the way it was. If not, pound it apart and carry it out. When you put it back together, this is a good time to clean, fix and shimm the entire boat. Don't let them scare you.

Get four big wheels and make a dolly or get two sets of beach wheels, turn the boat on its side with one hull up in the air and roll it out.

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Alan
'86 H16, Sail #89057

I've carried a hull around before, and it's not my idea of fun. They don't weight a lot, about 60 lbs, but they are awkward to carry.

Beach wheels are the way to go.

Or sail it farther up the beach where you can get the trailer up to it.

Found a picture of beach wheels if you've not seen them.
http://pirates.dwebz.net/pics/april06/w ... action.jpg

Tri-X- are those a set of homemade wheels? They look like the plastic 'dock wheels' I got from Overtons to make my own beach wheels. (I've had them all season but never got around to it.)

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Alan
'86 H16, Sail #89057

For somebody that's never done it, no way. I wanna hit that pipe. I really can't believe you guys are going to let a guy take his boat apart that just wants to get it on his trailer. Not store it in the basement or the attic. So putting it back together is like 12-14 minutes? Just really think it's a little over kill for what this guy wants to accomplish.

No idea. I just did a google search for beach wheels.

You didn't say how far it was? Maybe you could put some short pieces of plastic pipe under each hull and just pull it out. I used some old swimming noodles and and cut them into 1 ft pieces and pulled my 16 about 50 yards to the trailer one day.

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06 getaway -- always remember, man with both feet in mouth have no leg to stand on.

When we carried it in we had to lift over boulders and tip up some to get between trees. Rolling on both hulls or on beach wheels isn't an option. I am hoping to clean up the hulls this spring, so being disassembled might make that easier.

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Alfred
'87 H16 Sail 89907
If you aren't sailing on the edge, you're taking up too much room.

I took my boat apart this year, took about 10 minutes. It has been taken apart every year for about 15 years, and there have been no issues with "stiffness." Relax lads, it's a small boat he's taking apart here, not the space shuttle.....