Tina, Bill, Joe, Wright, Baab, Linda, and Bob got to work.  We unloaded the trailer and took all the fins off the boards and booms off the sails in hopes that we could just lay them in Baab’s enclosed trailer that he was generous enough to unload and let us use to protect the gear.  That scheme worked except for the three biggest sails which we had to derig completely. That was one step in the process to secure the training gear.

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Next, some of us put tie downs deep in the sand to secure the past commodores lounge while others were removing the tires from the broke axle.  Joe and Bob had both brought their small flatbed trailers down and the drying rack, steps, front door stoop and stairs to the past commodores’ lounge were all loaded on Joe’s 10’ trailer while the anchors and other non-training items from the trailer were loaded on Bob’s 8’ trailer.  Joe and Perry took Joe’s trailer up to Larry’s corner at the intersection of Shell Point Road and Spring Creek and left it there.  Bob took his stuff to the band trailer.

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Wright had called Hobby towing earlier about moving the trailer the next day, Wednesday, and Hobby indicated he could come down right away, but we weren’t ready so said no.  However, work went so well, we called him back and he came down at 4:00 to move the trailer.  Sadly, as soon as it started to move, the back axle broke, so it was stuck.  We made plans for him to come back Wednesday when he was done with a Panacea appointment with a different flatbed truck to pull it out.

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Hobby called at 9:35 Wednesday morning and Bob promptly called Perry, Joe and Baab to come down. Hobby got there about 10:30 as Perry, Joe and Bob were waiting for him, with Baab following close behind with a small flatbed trailer of his own.  Hobby was concerned at first that the trailer on the back of his truck might be too tall for some of the cable wires running across the street.  The solution was to have Bob stand on the flatbed in front of the trailer and lift any wires that might be too low using a long piece of 1x4 wood.  Thankfully, on the trip to Snug Harbor, no wires had to be lifted.  Funny thing is, when the trailer was being winched onto the back of the flatbed, the back axle just dropped to the ground, wheels and all.

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While Bob was standing on the back of the truck, Perry, Baab, and Joe were busy loading 10 concrete block on Baab’s trailer to bring over. We set the blocks and lowered the trailer on top of them. Hobby towing is an amazing company.

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We went back to the beach to get the axle, steps that went from the trailer to the past commodores’ lounge, and the outside board rack.  Fortunately, Jeff showed up so that lifting the axle onto the trailer wasn’t too bad.  All this stuff is sitting behind the trailer in the Lakes at Shell Point within Snug Harbor.