Trailer for 26ft 2.5ton long keel yacht

[Lakesailor]

Glad you managed. It looks well suited as an outfit. Would the hitch have lowered on the Shogun to make the ride more level? One of those adaptor plates would have done it and still been legal on a 4x4.

(As it's a close-coupled trailer trying to lift the drawbar above it's natural position creates loads more noseweight. The extra wheel arch gap at the front may alert a cop to a possible overload. Lowering the tow hitch would reduce the effective noseweight and allow the car to appear unstressed.)

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

Hi Lakesailor...

the boat was loaded by the yard but whilst I was there and I'm afraid it wasn't positioned well on the trailer

leaving it too far forward. Something I hadn't checked correctly. Unfortunatly when it registered with me that this

was the case it was the Sunday that we hitched up and were returning with the boat and no work force were at

the yard. It meant therefore that the hitch load was higher than ideal.

Thankfully it did tow extremely well and the hitch and brake system on this trailer are usually found on a much

heavier load capacity than the 2+ tons of the IF. The Shogun also has an extremely large belt and braces hitch

put on for getting big horse boxes moved around a yard before the real tow vehicle takes the horses to gymkhana etc..

There was no hint of yawing or wandering but with 60lb in front trailer tyres and 40 in the rear and 40 in the shogun rear.

 

[Seajet]

Scotty,

strikes me there is a small but constant trickle of demand for such a trailer & tow vehicle, - and I don't mean A22's ! - but nowhere near enough to make a business; maybe some sort of organised transport if you or a chum felt like it.

Then the two trailer companies I know locally gave up hiring out trailers as the punters usually dunked them in seawater despite promises.

Hayling Trailers seemed equally worried someone might buy their product and use it to transport boats on land; to their credit they did everything they could to prevent such satanic practices...

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

trailer as seen.... http://s725.photobucket.com/user/johnscottorn/media/2014-12-14163920.jpg.html?sort=6&o=56 will be up for sale at the end of this summer season.

It has served it's purpose extremely well but as a 'loan' to my son. I will need to recoup the expenditure a little.

S.

 

[Ardenfour]

Just to add to this, at Troon there is a guy who trailered his Trintella 29 on a 6 wheeled trailer with a Discovery...

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

Son Sam is now off from Portsmouth intending to get 'Tusan' around the U.K. in stages throughout the year. She's now pale blue topsides with cream/grey deck and royal blue spray hood, so say hello if you see him going west from the Solent .

Hopefully I'll get my Tradewind to the Med' this summer with Sam skippering to add to his CV. He's one of these fast stream Yachtmaster Offshore

guys, so what I'm lacking in theory and he's lacking in experience ......we may make out O.K.

S.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Just to add to this, at Troon there is a guy who trailered his Trintella 29 on a 6 wheeled trailer with a Discovery...

A quick google suggests that the Trintella 29 had a displacement of 3,800kg as built, Isn't the limit for towing behind a car 3,500kg?

 

[Ardenfour]

Mmmm, I thought so too...

 

[Floyd Raser]

Just had a quick look but it's a bit confusing. Maximum train weight is usually quoted at 3,500kg but that assumes a normal car licence for the driver. Over that you need a HGV licence and possibly a tachograph fitted to the towing vehicle. I've seen a Disco with a tacho fitted for towing an exhibition trailer, and a similarly equiped Toyota Landcruiser which towed of all things, boats.