Can I borrow your 23ft finkeel trailor for a weekend?Ill pay you lots!

[matnoo]

Need to transport a 23ft fin keel yacht from the south coast to wisbech in cambridge any time within the next 6 weeks.

I dont want to pay £2,300 for a trailor that Im only going to use once!

Can I borrow yours? Name your price.

Im fully insured, I would pick up anytime/any date/anywhere that suits you, and drop back 48 hours later.

Name your price!

Mat

 

[ajt]

I have not got one myself but have a look at this link you may find help HERE

 

[Sixpence]

Hi Mat
Do you live in Wisbech ? , I have a trailer that my motor cruiser usually occupies /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif , it's up on pallets now , mines 25 ft , and I live near Spalding if it helps . Not sure about the fin keel bit though

 

[uforea]

See my reply in the Wanteds.
Ted

 

[William_H]

Re: Can I borrow your 23ft finkeel trailor for a weekend?Ill pay you l

The option is to build a steel frame to support the hull and put it on a flat bed trailer. But you might need a crane to get it on.
By way of encouragement there are plenty of suitable trailers around here (west Oz) and I often get involved with helping friends take their fin keel boats home for winter. It is a bit tedious but half an hour if you are arganised will get the boat on the trailer.

We have a fairly steep ramp at our club and very small tide range so it is always Sat. morning. The trailer is backed down to the waters edge, blocks under wheels the trailler is disconnected to sit on jockey wheel at the front. The car is run forward and the trailer is attached by a stout rope. Pull forward to enable the blocks to be removed. Roll backwards until the trailler is deep enough for the boat to float on. Typically the bed for the keel is 1 metre below water level so it is in 1.2 metres of water.
Pull the boat on to the trailer tie it on and pull it out on the end of the rope, block the wheels roll car back to attach trailer and drive away. easy....NO

You will need to be prepared to get in the water with a swim mask to ensure the boat is in the right place on the trailer. Bottom of the keel in a purpose built channel. Actually just above the right place. You need then to hold the boat in place over the trailer as the trailer comes out.

Many trailers have a vee fitting for the bow to nestle into. Great just tie the bow into this vee. NO... In our case the ramp slopes such that the baot is level in the water the trailer is on a slope. This means as it comes out the boat tips from level to sloping stern down. The bow moves a lot relative to the vee. it is often necessary to remove the vee. The best way to attach the boat to the trailer is by ropes from each stern quarter forward to the draw bar. (springers) which hold the boat forward into the trailer but allow tilting and height change.

i don't know if this is what you plan but it may give you some thoughts good luck olewill