peterhull
Active member
has any one ever built a stainless launching trolley for a 6m 750kg trailer sailer. ?
I have trailer sailed for over 5 years now and what worries me is immersing brakes and bearings in salt water. No matter what manufactures say the bearings on road trailers start to corrode quite quickly and have to be replaced quite often.
There was a firm in Cornwall ( subsequently gone into liquidation) who made galvanised piggy back trailers for Cornish Shrimpers. but they were quite expensive £3500. My idea is that if I could build a very simple launching trolley with no suspension no brakes and no sophisticated bearings and non pnuematic wheels I could winch it onto a simple low loading car trailer ( even hire one) and move and launch my boat that way.
Any thoughts about this approach. Picture attached of piggy back tariler for shrimper
I have trailer sailed for over 5 years now and what worries me is immersing brakes and bearings in salt water. No matter what manufactures say the bearings on road trailers start to corrode quite quickly and have to be replaced quite often.
There was a firm in Cornwall ( subsequently gone into liquidation) who made galvanised piggy back trailers for Cornish Shrimpers. but they were quite expensive £3500. My idea is that if I could build a very simple launching trolley with no suspension no brakes and no sophisticated bearings and non pnuematic wheels I could winch it onto a simple low loading car trailer ( even hire one) and move and launch my boat that way.
Any thoughts about this approach. Picture attached of piggy back tariler for shrimper