For those of you thinking about using a golf cart to move these beach trailers around, think about the weight you're trying to move: A hobie 16 is around 400 lbs and even a trailex trailer is another 400. Galavanized steel is about 50% heavier. Certainly, quite a load.

In our area on Lake Erie, we have a few property owners that have the golf carts to get around their properties and run along the beach. The carts can function okay if they stay near the water's edge on the hard pack, but at least four times we've had to get our tractor to pull these things out of sugary sand.

Another thing about tractors: Some work better than others. We had a Ford 8N for many years that worked well, but when we decided to upgrade to a newer machine from our 1948, we tried a John Deere full-sized tractor and it always bogged down in the sand. Last year we purchased a new Kubota diesel and it's four wheel drive option is perfect.

We've developed easy going systems for just about everything. Our trailers are kept behind the sand dunes to keep them out of the heavier winds and we also dropped in a forty-foot storage container with multiple racks for storage boxes and clothes racks for hanging up all of our wetsuits and sailing wear. We just show up to the beach with a change of dry clothes and a cooler. Life is good in Angola, New York. www.wnycatamaran.org