Trailer Guide Position - Repositioning Jib Block

[Ranger Paul]

Two subjects follow:Jeff, I checked the positioning of my trailer guides for my 216 and I have them at the very back of the trailer...not just back of the wheels. I think mine work so well because I stiffened them as I discussed before. I like them in the back as they hold better in a side wind...provided they are stiff enough.I have repositioned my jib blocks once again. They were too far out and too far forward. I now have them just outside the ridge on top of the cuddy (versus inside the ridge as delivered from the factory) and 4-6" more forward. Top of my cuddy is starting to look like someone took a shotgun to it! (Of course, I plug and seal the holes with a SS screw.)

 

[Jeff Prideaux]

trailer guide position

I took my 216 "camp sailing" at Kerr lake in NC over labor day weekend. I retrieved my boat in gusty side-winds. I could barely hold the boat from blowing away with the dock lines on the pier by the ramp. Fortunately, the keel went in the tract on my first attempt. Yeah!!! The trailer guides worked. I think I will move the guides back to the very end of the trailer as you have them... that way they will be at the widest part of the boat when it counts for centering it as the boat is moving up on the trailer.My hull suffered a nasty scratch down the side from the metal edge of the pier by the ramp. What was the name of the substance that can be used to fill a scratch for the Hunter composite material used on the H216?Camp sailing worked great. I had the boat anchored right by the camp site and could easily use it any time I wanted all though the weekend.My 3-year old, though, didn't like how much the boat heeled with gusty winds so I had to sail under reefed conditions to purposefully depower the rig to keep him from being to frightened.My 8-year old fell asleep down in the cubby cabin on the down-wind sail back to the camp-ground.