Wheels on a hard dinghy transom

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has anyone fitted wheels to a fibreglass dinghy transom? I was thinking of the alloy set from Pacer which are a bit lighter than stainless. The dinghy is 8ft, fairly heavily built in GRP. I dont want a trolley, more money, they get borrowed, and you have to traipse back up the slipway to park it after launch, and vice versa to recover. Also the dinghy is a bit heavy to put on the trolley single handed. I am just interested to know if anyone else has these or similar?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-FOLDI...tEquipment_Accessories_SM&hash=item53e9d63b9c

Thank you
 
£70 :(

The wheels on my rigid dinghy cost nothing. They were found near a supermarket trolley park.
 
Have you considered how heavy it will be to lift the bow of your dinghy.

At least with your trolley your nose weight is minimal.

With the wheels on the transom you will be required to lift half the boats weight.

I bet you also throw all the gear in the dinghy when you use your trolley.

Waste of time I reckon.
 
I used the folding dinghy dolly wheels available from force 4 at here

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TSB240 said:
Have you considered how heavy it will be to lift the bow of your dinghy.

At least with your trolley your nose weight is minimal.

With the wheels on the transom you will be required to lift half the boats weight.

I bet you also throw all the gear in the dinghy when you use your trolley.

Waste of time I reckon.
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I'd not be without my dinghy wheels.

Load all gear into wheelbarrow ... always includes on an outboard .. wheel to slip way.

Trundle dinghy to slip way and down to waters edge.

Transfer gear from wheel barrow to dinghy ... park 'barrow somewhere.

Change into wellies and launch dinghy.
 
The bottom fixing holes on the bracket look very close to the top of the wheel - you havn't got much room to play with. Make sure they will fit your transom, if they are too short they will foul your transom and won't fix in the 'fold up' position, hence why some wheels have a kink in the leg!

Some of those prices can beaten, click on their E-Bay shop. ;)

I have the pneumatic wheels on my sack trucks, blimmen things keep going down , I wonder if sand wheels or solid wheels anyway would be better if you don't have to go over particularly rough ground. Would be a PITA once you get back to the slip to find a wheel has gone down... I suppose a quick pump would sort it but still a solid tyre maybe better.
 
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gdallas said:
How are they fitted? Sounds interesting.
Thank you
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The dinghy has a flat bottom with two skegs. The wheels are on an axle fastened across the to skegs.

The wheels are plain plastic ones. Modern trolleys have wheels with bearings IYYWF


No photo of it upside down. Just visible in this one

 
I have fibre-glassed in, the Dolly wheel type on the transom of my GRP dinghy. The small wheels fold up but i don't bother. They work well, but is not as easy pulling the boat as it is with large pneumatic tyres.

So if I had to do it again , i would have not chosen the hard dolly wheels, I would have fitted pneumatic tyres instead. However, using fibreglass matt and resin to attach the wheels on the dinghy was a good idea and successful.
 
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