timo wrote:
Why did you go with the double double?
Strictly GP's - to get the maximum possible carrying area in light of the fact that I really have no clue how this is going to evolve.... So, for another thirty bucks I can avoid the (remote?) possibility that I will be kicking myself in the butt over not having it wide enough.
One (albeit remote) possiblity is an IC-10 sailing canoe riding side-by-side with the AI.
A pretty-sure thing is some sort of gear box on one side or the other - if only to get a little more tongue weight... right now I have only 32# on the tongue with the axle as far back as it will go and, IIRC, the recommended minimum is 9-15% of GVW which, in this case would be 40.5# (200# trailer weight + 250# AI sailing weight = 450#).
FWIW, contrary to what I
think I have read elsewhere, the scupper dolly works a-ok with the SUT-450: no lifting of the hull needed, no playing games with putting the axle under rather than over the springs.... works right out of the box.
One caution that I learned from a prior alu trailer back in my H-16 days: beware of any sort of rubbing. On the H-16 trailer, I once left a line trailing in such a way that it rubbed back-and-forth against the alu for a few hours of highway driving and it actually wore an indentation in the frame member.
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