Bill takes a look at my setup and suggests several options. He has ideas for testing them with whatever lumber we have lying around. Clearly, he's an experimentalist while I'm more of a theoretical kinda guy. The suggestion that catches my fancy involves using these garden hand carts to hook to the tractor and support the front part of the shell. A pair of somethings would connect the cart to the dolly we have. Several even have a section in their back side which would work for the prow (or stern) of the shell.
This sounds promising. The carts are typically around, or under, $100. I'm also looking at sturdier options besides the aluminum conduit for the connectors: aluminium angles, squares, even barn door runners. The wheel dolly at the back has to be, at least, at the halfway point - 12 ft from the point. Preferably, the length will be longer so that the back end doesn't get too close to the ground.
After some thinking (remember the theoretician bent?), I conclude that the hand cart will pivot some. On a turn, the point of the boat will swing back or forth across the cart. Not so good. Back to Bill's perspective, this would take experimentation.
I'm rethinking the jury rigged approach. Why not get something built for this - like this? Email sent to ask about their width because the picture implies "boat wide" not "rowing shell wide."
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