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MooseMan
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| Griffin wrote: | | Odilon, Roughly how heavy is the boat? |
Steven, I'd say it's about 15kg/30lbs or thereabouts.
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Griffin
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| MooseMan wrote: | | Griffin wrote: | | Odilon, Roughly how heavy is the boat? |
Steven, I'd say it's about 15kg/30lbs or thereabouts. |
It is quite heavy then. The trolley would need to be well balanced, and the boat kept near to the ground so as to avert any damage if it were to slip off.
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Bogstandard
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Odilon,
You don't half make life difficult for yourself.
In the club I belong to, they have all been tried, nice to look at, but a pain in the a##e when being used, and usually end up at the back of the workshop waiting for some other unsuspecting person wanting one.
Go to your local chandlers and buy, in your case (because you are tall, normally 4metres) 5 metres of SINKING rope, about 8mm diameter. It should look like cotton braided rope. Two bits of broom handle, each approximately 350mm long, with an 8mm hole drilled thru it about 15mm in from each end. Cut rope in half, tie a knot on one end of one of the pieces, and thread it thru one of the holes, and back up thru the hole on the other end, tie a knot in it. You should end up with a length of broom handle with a loop hanging down from it. Repeat the same with the left over bits, and you should end up with a pair launching straps.
Boat on stand sitting on ground, steam up, radio on and checked.
Put one of the loops under the bow, the other goes under the stern.
Gently raise up with the broom handles and you should find that the boat miraculously lifts out of the support stand and is suspended in mid air.
Gently transfer the mid air boat to the waters surface, and lower into the wet stuff.
The rope (if you have bought the right stuff) should sink, allowing you to retrieve the loops from under the boat, by moving the broom handles in the opposite direction of when you put the loops under the boat in the first place.
Boat is now free sailing and ready to be controlled to wherever you want to go.
When you have had enough or when you need to top up with water and gas, repeat the launching procedure, but in reverse.
This is by the way a bit of a jest on the explanation, but it is really the way you should consider going.
The choice is yours.
John
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MooseMan
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| Bogstandard wrote: |
You don't half make life difficult for yourself. |
Very true....as my mrs. said in a moment of exasperation "you could've taken up alcoholism like all your mates, but oh no, it had to be steam engines!!!" 
That sounds superbly simple - consider it done. It also will finally give me a reason to visit the chandler's in Penarth Marina - I've been looking for an excuse to do that.
Thanks!
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