[Wot2025] Trailer hitches, cannibals, missionaries

[Stephanie Zilora]

Also, Andrew is duty tow on the Saturday before WoT, so I could drag a
trailer out to W99 while he's towing.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2025, 7:17 PM Hugh McElrath via Wot2025 <
wot2025 at skylinesoaring.org> wrote:

> *My wife’s 4-cylinder Subaru Outback has a trailer hitch and wiring for
> trailer lights.  - Hugh
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 1, 2025, at 18:17, Piet Barber via Wot2025 <
> wot2025 at skylinesoaring.org> wrote:
>
> 
> Losing Chris Norris is really a big hit for this cannibals and
> missionaries problem
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionaries_and_cannibals_problem> of
> getting all the people and equipment to Petersburg.
>
> We are really tight on trailer hitches going to and from Petersburg.
> As I have plotted it out, either people are going to have to do two trips,
> or 9Y is going to get left behind for this week of Training.
>
> I could really use one👏more👏trailer👏hitch!
>
> I have 6 trailer hitches:
>
>    1. LOL QQ -> QQ trailer
>    2. Wagnermobile -> KS Trailer
>    3. WOT TRK -> 1K Trailer
>    4. StoreyF150 -> 9Y trailer
>    5. ShaneTrk -> Gator Trailer
>    6. DosikMobile (small trailers only)
>       1. 505CC trailer
>       2. 6E trailer
>
> Evan, I guess I'm going to have to ask you your intentions about what you
> want to do with WoT?  Is this a 6E kind of WoT or am I only using you for
> your trailer hitch?
>
> Chris Carswell and Chris Zaboji: Which one of you want to ferry the
> gliders to Petersburg? If Chris Zaboji does the ferry flight to Petersburg,
> we're going to have to come up with somebody else for the ferry back, as CZ
> isn't going to be around for the end of WoT.
>
> I've sketched out this C&M possible solution for Sunday:
>
> Early in the day:
>
>    1.
>
>    Piet Barber drives QQ trailer in the LOL QQ Truck to Petersburg
>    2.
>
>    Hugh McElrath sleeps in at his house in West Virginia.
>    3.
>
>    Shane Neitzey drives his pickup truck from his home in WV to FRR with
>    his big trailer
>    4.
>
>    Chris Zaboji or Chris Carswell drive their car to Petersburg and wait.
>    5.
>
>    Imram Akran flies his Cirrus to Petersburg.
>    6.
>
>    Richard Good drives his camper to Petersburg
>    7.
>
>    Piet, Chris (Carswell or Zaboji), Richard Good get into the Cirrus and
>    fly to Front Royal.
>
> After FRR flight ops conclude:
>
>    1.
>
>    Piet flies N321K behind the Husky, piloted by Richard Good
>    2.
>
>    Chris (Zaboji or Carswell) flies N341KS behind the Pawnee, piloted by
>    Andrew Neilson.
>    3.
>
>    Everybody who isn’t actively ferrying a glider or a tow plane to
>    Petersburg is packing up the Gator trailer.  See the packing list below.
>    4.
>
>    Stephanie Zilora drives the 1K trailer to Petersburg
>    5.
>
>    Ron Wagner drives the KS trailer to Petersburg (this can happen
>    anytime)
>    6.
>
>    Cliff Storey drives the 9Y trailer (with 9Y in it) to Petersburg.
>
>    Cliff, please get training on how to drive a glider trailer before
>    doing this the first time. If you can't find somebody to train you on this,
>    let me know and we can tow QQ's trailer around to get you some practice
>
>    7.
>
>    Evan Dosik tows the PeeWee trailer to Petersburg
>    8.
>
>    Imram Akran flies his Cirrus back to Leesburg, and then drives from
>    Leesburg to Petersburg. Long day for Imram!
>
>
> I have open questions about:
> What is Evan willing to tow?
>
> Are there any of you out there holding back, not bragging about your a
> trailer hitch?
>
> Chris Zaboji and Chris Carswell, are you capable of and are you willing to
> ferry flight a "K"?
>
> Alternate plans:
>
>    - We could leave the crummier of the two ASK-21 trailers at home, and
>    tow the Pee-Wee trailer with the PW5 in it.  Ron Wagner could tow this, or
>    Stephanie could tow this. We only bring the empty trailers to W99 as a
>    contingency that we have to ground-tow them back to FRR on Friday evening.
>    - I could drive with somebody in the LOL QQ truck.  When we get to
>    Petersburg, we leave the QQ trailer in Petersburg, and my co-pilot drives
>    back to Front Royal.  There, the LOL QQ truck picks up an extra trailer and
>    drives it to Petersburg.
>
>
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