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- Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:39 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Another Enterprise
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14118
Re: Another Enterprise
Thanks for the replies and encouragment all. Regarding standing in boats on trailers - Noted! Dan, I actually saw your thread at around the time I was looking to buy this boat. The great results you got with yours was one of the reasons I decided to go ahead! Anyway, by way of an update, the girlfri...
- Tue Dec 08, 2015 7:49 am
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Another Enterprise
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14118
Re: Another Enterprise
Negative camber - is that top in, or bottom in? Bottom in is quite common on trailers where the hubs are on the ends of a transverse leaf spring... Bottom out. I think the whole trailer needs a once over really. I'm less daunted by that than the boat though as I'm rather more handy with a welder an...
- Mon Dec 07, 2015 3:13 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Another Enterprise
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14118
Re: Another Enterprise
So I went to collect her yesterday without too much drama. On initial inspection I was a little concerned by the rather thin and "springy" Swan neck on the trailer coupling... http://i.imgsafe.org/c74fc5b.jpg However, I eventually convinced myself that it was *probably* spring steel and I ...
- Tue Nov 24, 2015 9:43 am
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Another Enterprise
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14118
Another Enterprise
I've done something rather silly and bought a 1957 wooden enterprise as what is intended to be a "floating project". I sailed an enterprise at school but haven't sailed since so this could be a baptism by... well...water. My partner and I have talked about learning (or re-learning in my ca...