With the help of Ron Carter (a friend and member of the Park City Sailing Association and active Laser sailor in the fleet) and his son Andy who is an expert welder with his own motorcycle customization business, we've begun to create a dolly for the Wicked Breezy. At home I laid up two bunks, one for the bow and one for about 2/3 aft on the boat that will support the boat on the dolly. We used 2" o.d. round aluminum tubing for the main frame and 1" o.d. for the handle and axle. 1.5x1" rectangular stock was used for the handle vertical, that was leftover from making 9 Opti dollies for the fleet in the PCSA and the tube that gives structure to the frame and acts as the housing for the axle has an i.d. of just over 1". Two pieces of black pvc pipe with 1" i.d. cover the axles and act as long spacers to keep the axle centered. I went with a couple of "stock" items to finish off the dolly, grips from wheels from Seitech. I really wanted the wheels from Seitech both for weight but also for their size. The grips I could have saved a few bucks and picked up from McMaster. The frame was powdercoated satin black by a local shop and it looks great. Now all that's left is to fit the bunks, fair them, paint them and install the Pro-Grip padding for the boat. Then I'll plan to take a break for a while as it's too cold to lay up the deck here at the moment.
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