Tornado.. future?or finished?

TornadoSi (and Sandy ),

Who made the Tilt trailer ?

My next single hander will be 10 feet wide (once I've sold my Inter 17) and I'm planning to go the tilt route.  Is it a braked trailer etc. as I plan to pull it behind my Impreza.

Also, how do you get it to tilt, do 2 people tilt the trailer up while one puts the uprights in?

Tornado Alive , Dont worry about missing the T - you will appreciate it even more when you step back on after a break !!!!!!

The new trailer sounds cool especially with the large box and adjustable tilt width ours will fit anything down to 8' wide so quite versatile and i totally agree about having 1 hull in the air- oncoming traffic gives you a much wider berth !!!

On ours you can get loads of kit in and even kip in it if you like !! Our box contains the following accessories - Tool Rack, Rope reel stand, Notice board, Radio, Vice etc  i will be getting round to making a canvas tent above using the tilt frames as a structure so we can work out of the elements, but the coup de gras is the photo board we have - loads of shots of the boat sailing and several motivational photos aswell and of course our girlies on there laser radials !!

Dug out some shots of the trailer being loaded onto the recovery truck after the wheel bearing gave out in france on the way home from the worlds now that was Scary !!!!

Nice to see another Jeep / Cat Combo - im trying to work out how to fit my A cat on the roof rack at the moment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trailered the Tornado and now F-18 with the tramp on in winds upto 40 knots.  If there is a risk of 40 + knot winds, tramp comes off.

F-18s are too wide for Australian roads and must also be tilted.

Matt, I actually perfer to trailer on the tilt as you are lifting one hull away from the traffic.  If you clash with a car.....  It is a mud guard.  The hight of it also intimidates a lot of drivers and they do not sit on the inside of you especially around bends but hang back and just look.  Just my preferance and it only takes an extra minute if that to tilt the platform.

Yes there is a little more expense to building a tilt trailer and also the extra windage involved in towing.......  But when you get out on the water there is NO SUBSTITUTE to beem.   When you are powering past all other sailboats upwind whilst fully trapped out and making them look slow.........  Then tilting just does not matter.

We can get ours from the trailer, rigged to the waters edge in just over an hour and about 1/2 hour back again although not with the bikes on !!

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