New boat trailer Regs

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.

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.

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)

Why are all the large trailer manufactures companies except for Mersea  not displaying the new trailers on there websites?

Its a gloriously equivocal statement isn't it? If they were sitting much harder on the fence they'd have a post somewhere uncomfortable.

Think I'll stick to keeping an old trailer roadworthy...