Repair one Completed.

[SVNET]

Well, the rain held up long enough for me to finish the first repair on my boat so I am happy, brand new transom.

Also I made some modification to the flat trailer, not road ready yet, but coming along well and until I get a real boat trailer,
I think I can make this work... Never unloaded a boat at the ramp before, but I find it very easy to load and unload the boat in
the yard so far...

Check this pictures:

Helper:

Old transom and new Transom

Trailer MODs:

Others:

How could I make this better ? Any genius ideas ?

 

[kemical]

I SAY,, GENIUS!!! =D>
are you going to still use that trailer,, or your converting it to a boat trailer??

 

[Waterwings]

Cool idea! I might suggest that you lower and move the rear wheels further apart for better stability, and possibly make some type of "cradle" (carpeted) to support the front part of the boat. Might want to have some (more) tie-down locations so as not to lose the boat while traveling. Depending on which strap breaks, the boat will either come through the rear window of your vehicle, or flip/slide backwards onto another vehicle behind you. Just my thoughts. I've attached a quick sketch of my ideas.

 

[Waterwings]

Forgot to add: If possible, you could use smaller wheels at the rear to roll the boat on, and the smaller diameter wheels would lower the boat closer to the trailer.

 

[SlimeTime]

In your other post, I'd suggested using bunks in the rear, and still think that way. Matter of fact, you could build a frame that just sets on the trailer. Once the boat is in & strapped down, it will also hold the frame down.

You need the trailer for something else, just set the framework off.

ST

 

[brewfish]

The only thing I would say is that while the straps in the middle of the boat are ok, you should always at the very least have a line attached to the eye in the bow of the boat and secure it to the trailer otherwise if you had to make a panic stop it could get ugly quick. It would also make it easier to load/unload by hand if you had a couple of handles bolted to back of the boat not to mention it would give you 2 more points that you could use to secure the boat to the trailer.

I learned my lesson about not securing items well enough after a small love seat decided to take flight out of the back of my truck while going down the highway. It did a complete flip and broke both pieces of rope used to tie it down. The wife was driving at the time I might add and she was only doing about 60 when it happened. :shock: Thank god no one was right behind her.

 

[SVNET]

Hello,

There is no replacement for a real boat trailer due to the convenience and safety.

I thought I could make this one fly but it is too unstable to go out on the road, never mind get on the hwy.

It was just a fun project to spent a day working on and to see what came out of it....

I do use that little trailer for other stuff so I can't just convert it to a dedicated boat trailer.

The wheels in the back can't be any lower or any more far apart because the bow would hit trailer frame
before it hits the wheels and will get all dented. This idea would work better if it was a flat Jon boat without the bow.

But at least it is some food for thought for some of you, I know some day one of you will run further with this
idea and perfect it. At this point I am running near my carpentry know-how and want-to.

I did find a couple that has two boat trailer for sales. They clean pools and one of their customers didn't have enough money to pay for the pool job so they let them have the two trailer, without a title I will assume...

Any ways, the lady say they are a 14ft and 16ft trailer, I am not sure if that is the total length of the trailers or the size of boats that the trailers could take.

At any rate, they are selling it $150 each or the two for $250, I will go check them out today just to see what is the deal...

Any hints on what too look for so not to get screw when buying a boat trailer ?

What size of trailer would be perfect for a 12ft boat like mine ? I am thinking 16ft total, 12ft for the boat and 4ft extra to separate the car from the trailer/boat ? Those that make any sense ?

 

[brewfish]

Generally people list the length of the trailer as the length of the boat that it is designed for, not the actual total length of the trailer.