Trailer advice please

[duncan]

Re: not forgetting to....

....remove the prop bag before starting up and heading off of course.........

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[Happy1]

Re: not forgetting to....

What is a prop bag? I looked it up on a chandlery site and they are about £15, is it just a plastic bag because that's all it looked like. So if this another case of us being RIPPED of by these jokers in chandlerys? I will stick on an orange Sainsbury bag or better still take the leg off for the journey (P.S. is it easy to unclip?)

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[DanTribe]

I think you are all making this far too complicated. I've just watched news footage of people leaving Baghdad, one of them just chained his power-boat to the back of a bus.No trailer required, simple!
Dan

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[gjgm]

re kerb weight.. cant remember where you find it.. I think. It was about 50kg for Volvo estate, and otherside of 100kg on cherokee, so I d guess your Frontera is in there somewhere. On mine, 18ft weight came out about 50kg, and on 24ft twin axled is about 90kg for your guide/ Id guess if trailer is new theyve got the winchpost in more or less the correct spot, but obviously they wont know if your boat has some wimpy engine on the back or some heavy weight diesel, so its worth balancing it. As someone else said, bunks on the trailer are alot cheaper than rollers, but you d find rollers alot easier- especially getting the boat back on.Id have a good read of your insurance policy as they are usually very precise about your cover since its sitting on a trailer.- you may need to tell them if you re taking it somewhere else, or leave it in the water overnight, or quite what the terms are when its behing the car etc. Mine (Bishops) had loads of impossible regulations, but when I asked how the hell was I supposed to actually use the boat, they wrote confirming the underwriters had let me off all those exemptions....

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[mickshep]

Hi Happy. Lots of trailer manufacturers fit 'sealed' bearings with a rubber cover to keep the water out. these must also be allowed to cool before entering the water as the rapid cooling of the bearing causes a lowering of pressure within the bearing and actually draws the water in past the seal. Another good tip I picked up was to have two removable uprights which can be clamped to either side of the trailer before recovering the boat from the water, these will make aligning the keel with the trailer blocks much easier, a piece of foam pipe insulation on each one will prevent damage to the topsides, Mike. (a raggie)

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[hlb]

This is exelent advise. I had a trailer with planks on it. Had to have umpteen do's at getting boat in the middle. I was going to make some poles for the sides. Scafolding poles would be ideal. Anyway the reason I did'nt was cos like Happy. THe camping lark in a cold wet boat, and traipsing back and forth to hotel / Caravan / cottage. Was doing my head in. So bought full sized boat.

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Haydn

 

[DavidJ]

I think we all get there in the end or give up boating. It's a phase until the home economics get better.
David

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[lanason]

sumbody mention \"BRICK OUTHOUSE\"

Like this :-

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[BarryH]

Re: sumbody mention \"BRICK OUTHOUSE\"

you don't need the url= bit

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[lanason]

Re: sumbody mention \"BRICK OUTHOUSE\"

b*ll*x i give up [sad]

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[BarryH]

Re: sumbody mention \"BRICK OUTHOUSE\"

Try this

Like that

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[Happy1]

Re: sumbody mention \"BRICK OUTHOUSE\"

How on earth did you get the bboat down there!! My drive is 7mtrs wide and I'm having cold sweats thinking about it /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[lanason]

Re: sumbody mention \"BRICK OUTHOUSE\"

Thats the easy bit ....

The hardest bit is getting out of the gate onto the road as the road is narrow and there is little room to swing round. Reversing in is tricky as well !!! Still many years of caravanning make it easy - My skills handling a trailer match HLB's with a boat !!!

now all I gota learn is which way to turn the wheel on the boat when in reverse !!!!

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