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"Nose Wheel" for Boat Dolly?
Last year I got rid of my windsurfing gear and got something called a
"Hobie Adventure Island": basically a kayak with outriggers optimized for sailing. About 220# beach-ready. Hobie sells a set of beach wheels that work fairly well: https://picasaweb.google.com/1081497...48948995878306 https://picasaweb.google.com/1081497...48951297106850 https://picasaweb.google.com/1081497...48949117328978 https://picasaweb.google.com/1081497...71011817870194 But the holes they mount into are so far back that the nose becomes about a 50# lift. Not un-doable by any means, but it's not what I would call easy on the back - and it has it's problems when a slope has to be negotiated and something closer to the boat's balance point would be a beeeeeg improvement. To that end, I've been fooling around with a frame that holds the boat, slides on-and-off the trailer, and has beach wheels mounted on it, but it is flying in the face of the KISS principle and it seems like embracing the existing wheels is the sensible thing to do. That being the case, I started off thinking about a pack wheel/game cart (as in https://youtu.be/4-gt-VF0zEI?list=PL76069A6D971DF3F9) but, once again, I think I am going overboard on the complexity - not to mention the price The Bottom Line: Can anybody think of something off-the-shelf that could function as a "Nose Wheel" for this thing? -- Pete Cresswell |
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