The 2015 AI is
heavy..... I weighed each component on a balance scale and the sum was 190#..... Sailing weight is easily 200+ with throw cushion, paddles, drinking water, life jackets and so-forth - especially with a gallon or more of water in the hull like I found after sailing today, my first day in significant wind.
The venue is New Jersey back bays and the beach is highly-abrasive quartz sand.
Today I did the conventional (?), merciful-for-the-hull-on-quartz-sand landings: sail at the beach, raise daggerboard, totally furl sail, turn 180 degrees on the boat's momentum so the stern is facing shore, raise the rudder, hop off, push down on the bow, and run the stern up on the beach until the hull hits sand.
But getting it far enough up the beach so that the onshore wind didn't flip it around broadside to the waves was a challenge.
I'm thinking maybe next time:
- Sail balls-to-the-wall at the beach
. - Furl the sail at the last moment
. - Let the boat's momentum run it up on to the sand
. - Maybe even flip down the seat back and plant my butt further back on the stern to raise the bow a little more
. - Drag the hull around to face the water before taking off again.
The hope being that the legendary durability of polyethylene will tolerate that kind of abrasive abuse.......
What think Those Who Know?
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2015 AI in "Dune" - "The Grey Pig"
2017 Trailex 450 Trailer
Pre-September 2015 cradles
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