Trailer: Wanted

[Bogle]

I'm in San Antonio TX, and in need of a ride for La Saladita, Commander #92.

Trailers, suggestions, quotes, etc. are welcome.  Want to bring her home to work on her for a while.

Thanks,  David

[Tony G]

Depending on how far you have to tow her I think the cheapest and most accessable alternative is to build a cradle  and put it on a 16' car hauler or suitable heavy flatbed trailer.  That gives you the opportunity to move it around once home.  I've wiggled 113 around on her trailer using a come along and 2" tie down straps.

Of course this will require you to lift the boat to the trailer.  I don't think I've heard anyone backing cradle/flatbed combo into the water, but I'm young and there is u-tube after all.  

I gotta think there are plenty of boat haulers down there, but, then she sits where they drop her until they come back to get her...that's ouch, ouch and  ouch!

Modifying a powerboat trailer can be done reasonably and then you at least have a trailer but how often do you really need one?  Of course you could just build a trailer and them you'd have a custom job just for these hulls.  

Speaking from personal experience, I think things progress faster if you just move to the boat and work on her there:o

[Bogle]

Thanks, Tony, for the encouragement.  I have thought about a cradle, which I could build with my rough carpentry skills.  If I put it on a flatbed/car hauler trailer, would it be a legal ride?  Those trailers, however, with a capacity of, say 6000 lbs, are not cheap either.  

I have not referred to the cradle diagram in the Manual lately, but I will check it out for fitment on a 18' standard car hauler.  It would be a logical solution to a 40 mile trip.  Yes, it would be essentially two, on-way trips months or years apart.  I don't need a trailer for trailer-sailing.  There is a crane at the lake that I would could hire to lift from their launching trailer onto my rig.  

On the return trip, if I am not persuaded otherwise by the racers and others with extended tongue trailers, I might back the wood cradle and flatbed down in to the water with a rope/strap (as do the professionals with their launching trailer.)

[Tony G]

Here's a pic of a modded trailer.