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Re: Not Boat Related
Richard Green
Thanks for showing that, Andrew.
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Rich
On Nov 15, 2020, at 8:28 PM, Andrew Linn <alinn@andrewlinn.com> wrote:
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Re: Not Boat Related
Thanks, Andy. I've been afraid to go up the McKenzie to see what it's like up there. So much that I knew will be gone. <sigh>
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The "completed" signs may be saying that the property has been checked for hazardous materials and cleared. Up the McKenzie property owners are being encouraged (with the threat of the law?) from doing too much cleanup before their properties have been cleared of hazardous waste. The County will send in a team to do it for free.
On 11/15/2020 8:28 PM, Andrew wrote:
I went for a drive today. Up to Detroit to see what the fires did back in September-- John <jkohnen@boat-links.com> It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins. (P. G. Wodehouse)
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Re: winch or capstan suggestion?
Bert's junk shop, next to the Embers nightclub on Hwy 99N in Eugene, is going out of business, and he's got a bunch of used garden tractors. When he wasn't going out of business he often thought his merchandise was more valuable than it deserved, but there are probably some deals now.
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https://goo.gl/maps/vPqwSzhDxDJ3pofC6 Be prepared to put a trailer ball on the bow of the tractor. Otherwise your weight on the seat and the weight of the trailer tongue will lead to wheelies.
On 11/15/2020 8:01 AM, Dan in Almostcanada wrote:
...-- John <jkohnen@boat-links.com> In Heaven, it is always Autumn. (John Donne)
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Not Boat Related
Andrew Linn
I went for a drive today. Up to Detroit to see what the fires did back in September
http://andrewlinn.com/2020/201115_burn/index.htm
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Re: winch or capstan suggestion?
Single- width driveway? If it's double-width you can probably manage to back the trailer in, with practice. I got a _lot_ better at trailer backing after I got some neighbors who park a line of dead cars along the street across from my driveway. ;o) My street is probably about 24' wide (residential street with room for three cars abreast -- two parked and one driving down the middle), then subtract the width of the cars, and Lazy Jack on her trailer is about 21', so similar mathematics to your situation. Same length pickup. Aiming for a 10' wide shelter opening about 8' in from the street. My driveway cutout is only single-width, but the driveway is double-width. I just back over the curb on that side. Somebody's suggestion to try a front-mounted hitch would make moving the trailer around much easier, and probably even make getting it in and out of the driveway doable with a single-width driveway.
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I think using a winch or capstan would be a hassle if you're gonna keep the boat at home. OK if you're only bringing it home for the winter. A fellow I know offered to GIVE me a fancy electric powered trailer dolly because it didn't have the power to get his 15' catboat up a slight slope in his driveway, so be careful if you shop for one. I'd love to have something like that for shuffling my trailers around, but his review made me leery of them for use on anything but flat, paved surfaces, of which I have few. I didn't take him up. Good luck.
On 11/14/2020 5:43 PM, Mark N wrote:
Hi group,-- John <jkohnen@boat-links.com> Life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. (Alice Munro)
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Re: winch or capstan suggestion?
Roger Padvorac
Mark,
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You might take a look at this page: https://www.grainger.com/category/material-handling/lifting-pulling-positioning The winches subcategory has a wide range of electric, air, hydraulic, and hand cranked winches. Even if I don't buy what I'm looking for here, Grainger is usually pretty good in helping me learn the range of available choices, and which kinds of choices are remotely within my budget. I stopped looking at harbor freight because they are usually such a poor long-term investment. I've been using some of my power tools for about 40 years (its hard to be certain at this point) and my experience with harbor freight is they don't sell tools that will work well for decades. Worse yet they sell sets and kits, but not the individual pieces when they need to be replaced. I would get a winch because it has more control than a capstan. You can stop the winch,and everything will stay in its current place while you leave the winch to go do something. You could tie off the rope going around the capstan, but that isn't nearly as quick, easy, or reliable as just turning the winch off when suddenly things don't go as expected. Some winches have a reverse, some have a brake to control the cable as it unwinds, and some have neither. In a setup like yours, I'd like to have a reverse or brake. Sincerely, Roger Quoting Mark Neuhaus <moonlitturtle1934@gmail.com>:
Hi group,
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Re: winch or capstan suggestion?
Mark. It's a bit slow, but quite powerful--and I seem to have to move
recalcitrant trailers alluhtime--but, i often use HF chainfalls to pull things around. I often have to lift boats from one trailer to another--weighing upwards of a ton or two. i even use them to help in felling trees. If you can rig an adequate tongue carrier, then the trailer can be pulled headfirst up your driveway from a 90-degree pivot. If that pivot is far enough back to allow the swing, of course. This also assumes that gravity will help in the egress. The reverse pivot would only require a set of wheel chocks to do the swinging. Or, get yourself a tractor...Dan
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Re: winch or capstan suggestion?
I have a very similar problem with my Caledonia Yawl with a driveway a bit steeper but boat much lighter. Tried that same HF winch with a 110->12v adapter and it takes SEVERAL LIFETIMES to winch it that far -- far too much hassle.
Consider these options: 1. An electric trailer dolly. These come up on Craigslist fairly often in the $500-800 range, and the ones with the 110 extension cord might be able to handle that much weight and angle. Test carefully as you'll get hurt if it can't hold on the driveway surface! 2. Front tow hitch. This might give you the ability to put it in the right spot to switch back to the rear hitch, depending on a lot of factors.
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Re: winch or capstan suggestion?
Case Turner
Of mounted to your trailer why no use a 12volt winch and battery on the trailer?
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Any WARN or knock off winch rated for that weight would work. Sent from not here
On Nov 14, 2020, at 5:44 PM, Mark Neuhaus <moonlitturtle1934@...> wrote:
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winch or capstan suggestion?
Mark Neuhaus
Hi group, My Tolman skiff on the trailer is 25 feet long and the street in front of my house is 24 feet wide, so no way can I back the trailer up my driveway.The boat/trailer combo weighed 2700 pounds empty when picked up in April and my driveway rises maybe four feet over a fifty foot run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXK4LZJRDjE If you've got one of those right angle gears you want to sell cheap, or know of a place to get one, that would be great. Thanks, Mark
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Re: After Thanksgiving paddle
Keith Korporaal <orionkeith@...>
Case,
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Good point... I’ll be there. I don’t really know anybody, so I won’t count 😑😊. Cap’n Keith
On Nov 13, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Case Turner <dirtsailor2003@...> wrote:
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Re: 2021 Coot Events
elaineginader
Thank you John. For me it's been a hard year with no water time. Hopefully maybe next year will be better. At least it's giving me time to get improvements done to my boats for when I do get to be out on the water. Elaine
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 9:42 PM John Kohnen <jkohnen@...> wrote: I'm gonna schedule the usual Coot messabouts for next year as if there's
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Re: After Thanksgiving paddle
We should skip the After Thanksgiving float. The float isn't just a bunch of individual boaters that happen to be on the river at the same time, it's also a social event where we eat pizza and BS. We couldn't in good faith use the Toledo Boathouse for shelter for the pizza feed. Also, we'd have to arrange shuttling tow rigs from Cannon Quarry to the Airport Ramp.
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Let's hope the weather is cold, wet and windy on the 28th, so we won't feel so bad about not doing the float. ;o) https://preview.tinyurl.com/yykyau3n or https://www.opb.org/article/2020/11/13/oregon-governor-kate-brown-covid-19-restrictions/ Take care of yourselves.
On 11/13/2020 2:09 PM, elaine wrote:
I just heard that Governor Brown has set a stay home order shut down for 2 weeks starting on the 18th. This will be during the holiday and the Thanksgiving paddle. Is this going to cancel another fun day on the water?-- John <jkohnen@boat-links.com> Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus)
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2021 Coot Events
I'm gonna schedule the usual Coot messabouts for next year as if there's no COVID. I hope that sometime next year we can get together again, probably still with precautions. In the meantime, I'll put the usual events in the Coot Calendar and the online schedule. Be sure to check the online schedule before going to a Coot event, and check the organizer's Web page before going to a non-Coot event. I'll start updating the schedule soon:
http://www.coots.org/mb/ -- John <jkohnen@boat-links.com> The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. (L. Francis Herreshoff) -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com
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Flounder's Day Pizza Feast
It looks like there's gonna be no way to have the Flounder's Day Feast this year. <sigh> The 29th is me and Mary's usual pizza day, so I'll be eating pizza and thinking of all of you a day late.
http://www.coots.org/mb/ -- John <jkohnen@boat-links.com> It's worth a fellow's while to be born into the world, if only to fall right asleep. (Herman Melville) -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com
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Re: After Thanksgiving paddle
Case Turner
Reading the rules no more than 6 people from no more than 2 households per gathering either outdoors or indoors.
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Guess there’s no rules for multiple individuals who “don’t know each other” paddling on the same piece of water... I’m not the one in charge so I can’t mKe a call just pointing on the facts. Case Sent from not here
On Nov 13, 2020, at 2:09 PM, elaineginader <elaineginader@...> wrote:
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After Thanksgiving paddle
elaineginader
I just heard that Governor Brown has set a stay home order shut down for 2 weeks starting on the 18th. This will be during the holiday and the Thanksgiving paddle. Is this going to cancel another fun day on the water? Elaine
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Re: Good Read
Magic Harbor was only published on the Interweb. Don Berry was an early adopter of online publishing, and had a Web page way back when. He's gone now, and his online works survive only on the WaybackMachine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040919230249/http://www.donberry.com/ I saved Magic Harbor to a CD years ago. I think it may be in the Coot Library. His historical novels about Oregon are all good: https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/berry_don_1932_2001_/#.X64RfFCIZaQ On 11/12/2020 7:48 PM, elaine wrote: Thank you John. Is this book in the Coot library I'd really like to read it.https://preview.tinyurl.com/y29an5bs or http://web.archive.org/web/20040919110718/http://donberry.com/harbor2/harbor2.html -- John <jkohnen@boat-links.com> Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Clarence Darrow) -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com
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Re: Good Read
elaineginader
Thank you John. Is this book in the Coot library I'd really like to read it. Elaine
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 7:42 PM John Kohnen <jkohnen@...> wrote: For several myears NW author Don Berry lived in a motorboat anchored out
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Good Read
For several myears NW author Don Berry lived in a motorboat anchored out in Eagle Harbor. Alas, wealthy owners of shoreside houses don't much like looking at "water rats", and do everything they can to eradicate them. <sigh> But we can read about what it was like not so many years ago:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y29an5bs or http://web.archive.org/web/20040919110718/http://donberry.com/harbor2/harbor2.html "Puget Sound, in the far northwest corner of the United States, is a gigantic fiord system with approximately 2000 miles of rugged coastline. The Sound includes everything from wilderness archipelagos to the mega-urban strip of Everett/Seattle/Tacoma/Olympia. "Along this island-dotted inland sea there is a small group of people (certainly fewer than 100) who truly live on the water -- not at docks or marinas, but floating free. They live on the hook, out at anchor with no connections to shore and no other homes than their boats. They have no electricity except what they produce themselves, no running water, no telephone. Some are ordinary, some are eccentric, some are plain lunatics. All are fiercely independent. They know themselves and each other as "water rats." "The name of the water rat game was best spoken by the skipper of the scow-schooner OBLIO in Eagle Harbor: "'This is the closest thing to liberty I know. If I knew anything closer, I'd be there instead.' "The book MAGIC HARBOR is a memoir of people and events from six years on the Puget Sound waters. Every word is true. Only one person's name and one boat name have been changed. (And believe me, the argument about that among the water rats lasted for two years.)" When I saw this scow schooner on the shore of Eagle Harbor in 2004 I wondered if it was Oblio... (see attachment) -- John <jkohnen@boat-links.com> For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? (Jane Austen) -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com
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