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Bateman's Bay Regatta; Who's going?
Topic Started: Apr 1 2008, 02:07 AM (630 Views)
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Taking Back Sunday will be there. Who else is attending? I trust the usual Canberra contingent will make the huge trek down the hill...
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From NSW

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Jim Walsh
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Batemans Bay
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No Elusive or Need for Speed I think.

Forecast is 20kts+ :ph43r:
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Yep! The forecast is looking more ominous by the day! Looks like we might get some crazy planing conditions like those described in my Lake Macquarie story! Good times - the skiffies will show the way! We have a large crew of light weights which equals quality combined rail weight. Looking forward to some great off-the-breeze rides. We've also managed to retain some of the Skandia crew - our bowman and spinnaker trimmer - so we're expecting some quality work on the bow from the deck clowns!

Seabreeze says 41 knots from the WNW at 1:00am on Monday, but our racing on Sunday seems as though it will be held in 20-25 knots. Make sure you pack your No.2 and No.3!
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Typical Catalina Club evening
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TRAILER MAINTENANCE FOR COWBOYS 101

So, you've done about 3,000kms since the bearings were last 'done' and your trailer has been in and out of the water at least a dozen times during that period.

During your circa 400km trip down the coast with a car full of deck clowns, several eskys full of booze and the intent on sailing and boozing - not maintaining - some 'circumstances' affect the way you begin to look at trailers.

Coming down Browns Mountain you can smell something which appears to be burning. Not sure what that is, but the brakes are still working beautifully, so you wind up the windows and close the sunroof so the smell goes away. 50kms later you're in the caravan park and you notice your left hand trailer wheel is on a pretty cruel-looking angle. The bearings have failed and the hub is red hot. Must have been the bearing grease burning then...

It's a public holiday, so nothing's open. The crew decide to get on the beers and get down to the more important activities which need to take place within Woof. The next morning, you purchase a new bearing, some axle grease and a can of degreaser. Following the race, you tie the E7 to a wharf, get out the car jack, lift the trailer and remove the wheel. Unfortunately, some of those nuts are very difficult to remove, so you soak everything in WD40.

The bearing change is unremarkable and everything is very well lubed. Because you're a cowboy, when you go to regattas that are 'only a few hours away', you don't worry about bringing proper tools - they waste esky space. So you do your wheel nuts up with a couple of adjustable spanners. By now the eskys are empty.

After a nice day out on the water, you pack your shit into your car and head off towards Nellingen. The weather is good, and as you approach a bend at around 90kms/hour you hear a rattling sound. Wondering what that is, you wipe off 10 clicks and look out the rear-view mirrors. Your deck clowns wail as they watch the left hand trailer tyre spear off into the pub carpark, hit the big steel bullbar of a Landcruiser and bounce off into the bush on the other side of the road.

By now you've pulled up the trailer, which is riding on its brake disc on one side. The disc has carved a nice 15mm wide channel in the road. After some difficulty getting the jack under the trailer which is sitting pretty much on the road, you remove some nuts off the good wheel, put those on the other side, take a spare nut, unhitch in the carpark and head back into town to buy wheel nuts and a wheel brace.

Since the town you're in doesn't have mobile service, you ring ahead from a payphone in the local pub to make sure Repco is open. When you get back to the boat half an hour later, you degrease the threads on the hub, put the new nuts on and do it up as physically hard as you and two other guys can with the new wheel brace. Because Huey is angry with you, a storm front quickly approaches and it rains large, cold drops of water on you while you do up the new nuts.

Total loss - 50 minutes or so of your time and about $40 in wheel nuts and a wheel brace.

Gain - new appreciation for trailer maintenance. Goodness me... could have been a whole lot more serious.
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Yep my bearings are done for the trip from Brisbane to Hervey Bay and back.

An hour out of my time sure beats roadside repairs. Fingers crossed I did them correctly though :huh: :huh:
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Just make sure you don't get any grease/WD40 on the wheel hub threads and do them up with shifting spanners. This is what stuffed wheel bearings look like...
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On a lighter note - more rum drinking.
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Apr 30 2008, 01:53 PM
Just make sure you don't get any grease/WD40 on the wheel hub threads and do them up with shifting spanners. This is what stuffed wheel bearings look like...

I coat every thing in grease, including the brake disc so it wont rust, might smoke up a bit on the way to tin can though. I will check them before I go though!
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Yeah, well that's what we did - for the exact same reason. I've since been advised that you shouldn't put anything on them except lok-tite. We have a feeling that they were over-greased and under-tensioned. Maybe the rotation of the wheel in combination with these factors "flicked" all five nuts off. Probably led to one of the wheels falling off...
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I'm very glad to hear you just didn't tighten them up and it wasn't part of the Woof/Taking Back Sunday fued <_<

The big pity of the regatta was the shortened course on Sunday WTF just as we were catching Woof and Casper. Woof kept on trying to broach in front of us but we weren't close enough to trip over them.
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