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Bootscooter 
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 Topic: Unusual Trailer ideaPosted: 22 Feb 17 at 10:51pm |
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Sam.Spoons
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Posted: 22 Feb 17 at 11:05pm |
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If the trailer costs more than the boat you have your priorities wrong
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Bellingforth
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Posted: 22 Feb 17 at 11:39pm |
I think I have a good idea about what you're after. Something that would sit on an existing road base would negate the type approval / inspection thing, and then in turn the boat sits in that. First problem is that road bases with 8" wheels are quite low - when towing the hitch may be higher than the axle. So if you put a flat base on it extending out to the transom of the boat, it would probably have grounding issues. The solution would be for the floor to be hinged just behind the road base roller - when travelling this would be raised close to the transom to provide ground clearance, but would be fully lowered for loading. Possibly could be a mid position for camping? Would need some thought about what was going on with the sides & rear at that point!
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Phil_1193
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Posted: 23 Feb 17 at 6:13am |
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With an unladed weight of 780kg those HIT trailers are far too heavy!
Try moving that about the dinghy park on your own. The cost in fuel just to drag it about (apart from the sily expensive purchase cost) would be huge. You might just as well get a 16-18ft caravan, gut it, make the back a pair of doors and use that. Far better to sleep in as well Edited by Phil_1193 - 23 Feb 17 at 6:14am |
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RS400atC
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Posted: 23 Feb 17 at 9:23am |
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Years ago, wasn't there a bloke with a moth, who put a couple of rails into his van, so the moth just slotted in, held by its wings?
I can't imagine what you'd do with one of those Hit trailers at venues like Lyme Regis? Which is also a place I've valued having the good old road base under the trolley while everything's tied down overnight. |
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PeterV
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Posted: 23 Feb 17 at 12:17pm |
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I'm sure it doesn't meet the boat cost vs trailer cost criteria but I saw a German Finn sailor with a caravan with a tailgate on it. The tail gate lowered, his Finn rolled out then he lowered the double bed from the ceiling hydraulically. The kitchen and washroom were at the front of the caravan with some settees. A beautiful bit of kit!
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maxibuddah
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Posted: 23 Feb 17 at 12:36pm |
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Something along the lines of a knaus
http://www.knaus-uk.co.uk/knaus-deseo-caravans.html |
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Do Different
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Posted: 23 Feb 17 at 1:16pm |
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The Germans and Dutch are all over the trailer engineering. I guess driven partly by their far stricter laws on trailers they look at our ratters with some distain. It's not a new thing by any means, I remember 40 years ago in farming while we were still dragging converted horse carts down the road behind tractors they had brakes and lights!!!!
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The Moo
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Posted: 23 Feb 17 at 1:54pm |
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If nothing else that Hit trailer certainly seems to nail the perennial cheap crap lighting board issues we have to deal with from time to time usually when it is raining cats and dogs
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Sam.Spoons
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Posted: 23 Feb 17 at 2:06pm |
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My extensive experience of cheap crap lighting boards suggests that it's most often the plug and socket that fails. Sadly that won't have been solved by my buying one of these but at least (I hope) dodgy bulb connections should be a thing of the past......
Edited by Sam.Spoons - 23 Feb 17 at 2:07pm |
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