IMG 0005b The shackle looks OK. I found a broken cotter pin in the rigging pin of this shackle one year. I'm glad I checked it that year.
Loading her on the trailer 3 22 12 001 To slide the trailer over and inch or two one side or the other just place the jack under the center of the trailer and jack it up. If the ground is soft or in this case has pea stones on it, just place the jack on a short plank and that trailer should slide over pretty easy on the jack's small steel wheels. I'm using a set of blocks to pull the trailer over but you should be able to push or pull the trailer over by hand. My trailer is 23 feet long and I'm able to push it over by hand as long as all the wheels are off the ground. Of course, the jack needs to be place somewhere near the balancing point of the trailer. Pretty nifty huh?
Loading her on the trailer 3 22 12 002OK. The bottom is all painted and it's time to get the trailer under her. Oh heck, the trailer's crooked! It needs to be slid a little to the left so that the keel lines up with the trailer's keel board. I came up with an easy solution to this problem by using my Speedy floor jack.
DSC00406 As you can see in this pic, my boat had never been bottom painted. This was the first time for bottom paint. A word of caution here; Don't apply any paint to the bare hull of these boats until you clean it good with Acetone. These boats may be thirty or more years old but they still have mold release wax on them from when they were molded at the factory. Clean it all off first, then you can apply whatever you want. I like Super Shipbottom Ablative Paint myself. A couple of my friends in the YC also use it. Order it early because Ed has a tendency to be slow. He works by himself and he only makes one color a month. Call and find out what colors are available. If you only need one gallon, the mail man will deliver it. UPS gets and extra $20 for a hazardous waste handling charge. So keep that in mind.
IMG 0005b The shackle looks OK. I found a broken cotter pin in the rigging pin of this shackle one year. I'm glad I checked it that year.
IMG 0001b I get the boat in this position for checking the centerboard and pendant line Etc. I usually dig a hole under the keel so that I can let the centerboard all the way down to spot paint it.
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.
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IMG 0005b The shackle looks OK. I found a broken cotter pin in the rigging pin of this shackle one year. I'm glad I checked it that year.

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