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    Posted: 08 Mar 13 at 12:11pm
Why are all the large trailer manufactures companies except for Mersea  not displaying the new trailers on there websites?
What about rs laser topper are they suppling the new trailers?
Whats going on!!!!
Boats must be being sold at the moment with road trailers.
Nothing on the RYA site either.
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I followed some inbreed from my village with his tractor and muck spreader this morning, not a light or plate in sight and further more he seemed to be spreading more muck on the road than the field. As usual the EU are re arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.
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Thunder Road, that's a failing of local enforcement- bet he didn't clear the mess from the road either (like he's legally obliged to)
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Originally posted by Thunder Road

I followed some inbreed from my village with his tractor and muck spreader this morning, not a light or plate in sight and further more he seemed to be spreading more muck on the road than the field. As usual the EU are re arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.
 
Yes but he has been farming there for xxx generations whereas you have only lived there for a short time. He has always spread his sh1t on the road and the fields this way and so did his father and his father before him and......


Edited by rogerd - 08 Mar 13 at 4:57pm
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Local enforcement - that's a joke in the country. Our lane was so muddy last autumn from the sweetcorn harvesting that the mud blocked the drain and caused a huge puddle too deep to get the car through. I was planning to take the 9ft dinghy and sail it there but they finally cleared it after a fortnight!
Looking at the trailers at the dinghy show with fixed lighting boards, I cannot see how these meet the rule about having lights at the rearmost part of the rig when a boat is on and overhanging at the back. Surely you'd still have to have a separate lighting board on the boat to ensure that some Audi driver doesn't try to hoopla his rings on your rudder pintles.
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Re Trailers at Show. Speaking from a point of ignorance because I wasn't there, but, were they not telescopic and retracted for the purpose of space saving at the Show?
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Originally posted by Do Different

Re Trailers at Show. Speaking from a point of ignorance because I wasn't there, but, were they not telescopic and retracted for the purpose of space saving at the Show?


That's what we do with trailers on bigger boats, RIBs etc.
I would think with a bit of thought, there are sensible solutions.
Rather than just fitting a bracket for the current sort of trailer board.
I don't think my trailer board would be very reliable if kept outside in a salt environment all year round.

As a new Sovereign combi is now a grand, it seems worthwhile to go for single vehicle approval if necessary.

It's just another half-baked bit of bureaucracy.
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with a boat on the trailer whats wrong with hanging the board on the boat as we've all done for decades? If the board works noones going to stop you because your trailer is too new.
 
When there isnt a boat on the trailer use the brackets. Simple :)
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I would love to do a deal with the government - I'll make my trailer roadworthy if you fix the holes in the road. Parts of the A9 near Aviemore are impassable to anything which has not got modern suspension including many cars. An unloaded trailer is airborne most of the time unless ballasted.

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We had a classic in the village of the damned this weekend. One of our custodians of the country side damaged themselves. The road to the farm was so badly maintained that the ambulance couldn't get down it. In the end all was well due to the efforts of the paramedics (well done guys), but the alternative was an air ambulance at vast expense. While I agree about enforcement, surely this should have priority over spending money on regulations and their enforcement which will do nothing. Basically people who maintain their trailers and equipment always did because they want to arrive with the least amount of trouble and drama, people who cobbled it together with hope and bailer twine always will, no matter what regulations are introduced! It is the human condition.
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