Wheels for launching trailer

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Petercatterall

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I always seem to have to launch and recover my tender at low tide and need to fabricate a trailer. I am looking for some wide wheels suitable for sand.
Usually these just seem to turn up on a skip but Ive only found worn out ones to date.
May have to bite the bullet and actually buy a pair, any suggestions as to a source (preferably frome a non marine focussed dealer.
Cheers
 
I have wheels that fold up on the back of the tender:

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These are available from here
and work really well.
 
Surely a good Garden shop ??

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Trailer wheels courtesy of local garden shop about a 5'r each .... they were from about 8" up to 24" diameter ... with all sorts of widths ....

Some were completely plastic wheel with rubber tyre, others had metal inserts and bearings for axle ... (the plastics you buy a separate stub metal axle or use as I did a long stud-bar with nuts ...)

Wheel-barrow wheels ??
 
Get pneumatic tyres for sand. I once kept a dinghy on a beach and it came with solid wheels on the trolley. It was bloody hard work for two big blokes to move an 11' sailing dinghy. I had to replace the wheels in the end.
 
I built a launch trolley using a children's swing frame I found in the beck and some wheels I got from a local trailer builder. About £10 each. Very similar to the Screwfix item (20600-29, under Ironmongery) I've got a MIG welder.

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I didn't paint the tender after repairing the storm damage in January on the well-known "who'd pinch that?" basis.
Note the best use for spray-dogers that I can think of.
 
I've got a pair of these

At £100 not cheap, but I would put them at or near the top of my list of most useful gadgets. Easy to use on sand, easy to put up and down. Easy to take off when you need to fold the dinghy up.

When we go to the boat we load everything into the dinghy, use it as a wheelbarrow down to the waters edge, flip the wheels up and set off to the mooring. One trip, no toing and froing(?).

Excellent gadget. worth every penny.
 
Look again. Yours were £78.99 on the link I gave. Mine are the second set of wheels. Bigger, better on sand, more versatile. Far superior, and worth every penny! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Thanks for all the info and advice.
There do seem to be some decent wheels available new from trailer specialists and garden centres. Despite being a tight wad I am going to stump up a few quid for new wide hard wheels and raid skips (garden swings was a good idea!!) and the like for the frame. I like those screw onto the transom ones but believe that they would foul the rudder.
Thanks again y'all.
 
If you are talking about 'Sandhopper' wheels I have never thought they had any advantage over normal pneumatic wheels. Their wide hard tyre is no better in sand than the larger diameter inflated ones and they are not so good on the hard.
 
Agree those Sandhopper wheels on the towsure site look just like the ones we had to get rid of when we were launching over sand. You'd be better off with pneumatics.
 
I bought wheels from Thacker Barrows. Normal size just like pneumatics but they are foam filled so can't go flat. They are a bit less bouncy than pneumatics but ideal for a rough beach
 
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