DSC01467She's almost free of the trailer. I yoost take my time when I do dis. You can't rush "deze tings" you know. (Just practicing my Scandinavian accent.)
DSC01472 Years ago I went out and bought some el cheapo bottom paint from "Worst Marine" that required that the surface be primed first. After getting the paint home I read the small print that said, you need to apply the primer and put the bottom coat on while the primer is sticky. "Oh great! How the heck am I going to pull this off?" The answer was easy. Just stick some 2x4s and 2x6s under the gunwales to the ground, and remove all the stands. I wish I'd have taken a picture of that but I was running against time. Consequently, about the middle of the summer my boat was moving at a crawl. I anchored in a sandy cove and dove under the boat and discovered a soft thick mat of marine growth all over the bottom of my hull. I was scraping it off in sheets. Ya know what? I could have avoided all this by getting some Super Shipbottom Ablative bottom paint and applying it to the bottom at my leisure time. You don't need a primer. It has the primer built in and it has about 62% copper content. It will go over bare Fiberglas and most bottom paints. I've been using this paint for years. One coat can get me two seasons. You can't beat that.
DSC01469 As I mentioned, these keel/centerboard O'Days can take the full weight of the boat with the keel sitting on blocks. I don't think that the Catalina sloops can do this but I may be wrong.
DSC01468 This is just the initial set up on the shoring. When I get ready to raise the boat, I'll block up under the stern and bow, as close to the front of the keel as possible, and start raising the boat with the five stands. I shore up as I raise the hull.
DSC01467She's almost free of the trailer. I yoost take my time when I do dis. You can't rush "deze tings" you know. (Just practicing my Scandinavian accent.)
DSC01466As I mentioned previously, I usually shore up under the stern with blocks first just as a precaution. I don't know why I didn't do it this time.
DSC01465 It's a slow process, I know, but it's the best way I know of doing this right now. A faster way and easier way to do this would be to support the bow with a long metal eye beam supported high enough to allow the trailer to be rolled right out from under the boat. I would shore up under the keel just as soon as it's clear of the back of the trailer. Then the beam could be removed. Two of the stands can also be move toward the bow of the boat about 6' or 8' from the other two stands on the stern. The keel of this boat can take the full weight of the boat while sitting on blocks with at least two stands to keep it from tipping. Two sailboat stands can be placed temporarily under the stern of the boat to keep it from tipping. Preferably, the more stands the better. I use four sailboat stands and one powerboat stand under the bow of the boat with the keel sitting on blocks. The boat needs to be level at all times when you raise/lower the hull with stands and the jack. Five of my stands can raise my boat with no problem. Is this dangerous? You bet it is. I take every precaution when I do it.
DSC01464 A tall car stand can be used in place of the powerboat stand. Once the powerboat stand is against the front of the trailer's cross member, I need to jack the boat up again and move the powerboat stand to the back side of the same or another cross member in order to move the trailer ahead a little more.
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DSC01467She's almost free of the trailer. I yoost take my time when I do dis. You can't rush "deze tings" you know. (Just practicing my Scandinavian accent.)

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