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#14708 05/02/13 10:00 PM
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What is the height of a J 30 from the bottom of the keel to the highest part of the deck/pulpit?

Thanks in advance for any info.

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just enough so that you have to use a low boy to trailer it. then think you are just clearing what a standard trailer truck will on overpasses.

mine came down 1500 miles without taking the bow pulpit off.

I'm assuming that's what kind of info you are looking for.

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Sorry - don't know the demension but when the boat is on my trailer the bow pulpit is lower than all the bridges between Mich and New Orleans. if I recall, with the boat on the trailer, the keel sits about 6" above the ground

I shipped it on a low boy trailer from California to Michigan with the pulpit on the boat. the boat arrived with the pulpit still on the boat

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I am 13'2'' on my 3 axel trailer with the mast under the bow pulpit (measured from the bow pulpit). Trailer is oversized and keel is blocked up to fit the stands. With shorter trailer I would sit lower.


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I am ~13'3" with the mast support of my Triad J/30 trailer holding the mast above the pulpit. This would drop a bit if I the aft end of the mast was more than 3" above the stern rail.

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