[Wot2025] Trailer hitches, cannibals, missionaries

[Christopher Carswell]

I’m willing to fly a K both directions.  Are we going to offer students the
chance to fly along?

On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM Stephanie Zilora via Wot2025 <
wot2025 at skylinesoaring.org> wrote:

> 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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