Trailer lighting board supports
The
picture shows the end of one of the lighting board supports on a Severn Valley/Churchouse
trailer. It illustrates two issues.
The
first is that when restrained by the elastic loops the lighting board is free
to move up and down. Not a lot but enough to chafe quite quickly through the
elastic. If you are lucky this will just result in a lighting board with a
corner worn away as one end drags on the ground. If you are unlucky it will
result in a destroyed lighting board. The support in the picture has been
modified by gaffer taping a small wooden block onto the lower support so that
the board is supported above the level of the bottom of the elastic loop so
that the loop holds it firmly down.
The
second issue is that I am lazy. I leave my lighting board supports permanently
partially extended so that the board is just ahead (behind if viewed from the
rear) of the engine lower unit with the number plate visible to one side. (you
do know that four strokes should be trailered in the down position don't you)
This practice of mine is made possible by the soft green polythene tubing you
see (or anything else you care to use)
which protects the bow of the boat from the protruding ironwork when recovering
onto the trailer. One day waterproof swing away lighting/number plate sets will
live here but LED sets are presently expensive and require resistors that make
a lot of heat by using up the same amount of energy as the bulbs they replace
in order that the towing vehicle doesn't think there is a bulb out.