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Potomac River Rat,
What I meant was it takes two people for the inital installation. After it is installed you can raise and lower it yourself. It is aluminum.but If your guy powder coats he should be able to do the archif you wanted it done. Mine has two gps antennas, a 24" Radome, spreader lights, and a VHF antenna and I can raise and lower mine by myself. Mark
Just brought my new Triumph 210 home. The dealer, Merritt Marine in Hillsborough, NC 27278 , phone (919) 732-7377 did the work.
The same design can be used on any boat. They just need to know the width of the gunwales and the height needed above the gunwale. Currently this is a truck freight item, but they are working on a UPS able version.
offshore3144 - Okay! That makes me feel MUCH better! The install should be no problem. I just wanted to make sure I can lower it myself. I really do think it looks sharp on your boat. Nobody would ever know it folds. Bet you get some stares when you put it up/down at the boat ramp!
OspreyVic - Also a nice looking rig. You're gonna have some fun with that puppy! I was wondering about how it's going to fold back once you get stuff on top of the arch. The picture looks like it just clears the motor when folded down. Will it just lay up a little higher when equipment is mounted on top, or will you just mount off center so that it folds down past the motor?
Also, I assume that the two extensions are for a soft top? That's really nice. And the folding center console is a great idea. Looks like manufacturers are starting to realize that boats are often kept in garages!
Anyone - Any comments on power coat as per my 4/22/05 post?
1. Door height is 7 feet 11 ½ inches. Because the Rolls Axle trailer is lower than the Triumph standard, I have close to 5 inches to spare with the center console folded back so it almost touches the seats. If your space is really tight and you need me to be exact, just let me know and I will measure it.
2. The section of the garage where we have placed the boat is 24 feet 6 inches deep. Rolls Axle made the trailer with a swing tongue, which made the trailer the same length as the boat without the motor. I have just over one foot of space left over. If the trailer was just a few inches higher, so the motor could sit straight up and down, I would gain even more space.
3. The widest part of the trailer is at the Guide-Ons. We have a width of about 9 feet 3 inches at the widest spot. We were originally going to place the boat in a single car garage with a 9 foot 11 inch wide door that was 25 feet 10 inches deep, but backing the boat up into it was really threading the needle. We chose to use the wider double door.
We hope the above information will help others. It took us many years and the help of many to get to where we are now. The only credit I will take is being stubborn and not giving up when others said it could not be done.
Now that I see the last photo you posted, I can see that there is more room between the folded arch and the motor than I thought. Did you consider the type of radar mount that is pictured at the start of this thread? If you used something like that, the radar dome could flip and hang down for clearance past your motor.
I too have to measure inches to see about fitting a boat in a garage - but in my case it's BUILDING a garage that is as small as possible but will still take a boat that I have not purchased yet!
I have looked at mounts that fold. Personally, I do not want any additional folding items. If for occasional use, they might be OK, but to be used each time we use the boat, I am just not interested.
In looking at your "inches", and I hope a contractor can add to my comment, garage door heights from my builder were measured in feet. A 7 ft high door was standard, and it is 4 sections high. The next step was an 8 ft door, and it has 5 sections. Anything higher was considered commercial or custom, and many more dollars.
Until we found the fold down center console on the Triumph 210 CC, we were also looking at having to pay to modify at least the windshield on any other center console we looked at.
We could have saved money by going with the standard trailer, but salt water and trailers? They just have problem's. Besides, with the standard trailer, the boat would have to have been parked in my single car garage (see my previous post) and the trailer would still have to be modified with a swing tongue.
I plan on using our boat for many years, and I do not want to have to purchase another boat or trailer. My wife is sure not interested in building another house, so I can't get anything larger.
The old addage of measure twice and cut once, makes a lot of sense when you are building for a boat you do not own yet. That is what I did, and it all worked out. Some of it was planning and part was good fortune in finding the right mix of boat and trailer.
I have yet to find a boat builder that builds boats to be kept in a garage, so you have to be really carefull.
May I be so bold as to suggest you visit triumphowners.org? Read what the owners have to say about their boats, they are much more critical than others. I also wrote an article about why I purchased a Triumph 210 CC.
Good luck to you, and I will be happy to try and answer any question you have.
HereOur new Triumph 210CC is home and on its own trailer. The shade provided for my wife is greater than that offered by a t-top, PLUS it folds down nicely to go into the garage.
Re: Collapsing Radar Arch??? 
Mark 
