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    Posted: 21 Sep 24 at 7:52am
I have trailing board arms, they lasted one season and did more damage than I’ve ever had before so they now live in garden
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Yup that would certainly work for an Oppi or Topper on a box trailer.
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If the trailer has fixed lights and the boat doesn't extend more than a metre past the lights you don't need anything else.
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When was your trailer built? Does it have fixings for trailer board poles?

It's really hard, as I guess you know Censored, to find clear information. But I've found the following (which may or may not be useful to somebody in the future) and it seems a waste not to post it :-

You don't need to register a trailer less than 750kg to use it in EU (from .gov so is good info).

As a visitor you should* be fine towing abroad as long as your trailer is under 750kg and conforms to the relevant UK regs.

If your trailer was built after about 2002 (I seems impossible to find the date the new EU regs came in) you must use the poles to mount the lighting board**, if you trailer doesn't have fixings for the poles it's pretty safe to assume it was built before they were a requirement and you will be ok in the UK.

* This is anecdotal so, while worth mentioning, may not be 100% reliable.

** My Blaze trailer does not have fixings for poles and the boat was new in 2002. I think I would continue to use the pintle mounted board in the UK if I bought a boat with a newer trailer but would accept that there is a small risk go getting a pull from the boys in blue.


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Thanks, my question is specially for trailing on the continent. Can I get away with Pintle hung or do I need to retrofit arms onto my trailer if heading for say Lake Garda?
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If your trailer was built before the new regs were introduced you are fine to have a board attached to the boat but all new trailers built since have to have the lights and reg plate to be attached to the trailer not the load. I haven't heard of anybody being stopped and checked but the rule does apply in the UK post Brexit.

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I dont have the trailor arms on my road base. I think that was an EEC thing. never been stopped in the UK for it. Always worried me the metal bars would bounce and hit the hull so assume you have to strp them to the boat anyway.
My trailor board hangs off the pintels and I tye it to the transom bar. only isue i have had was the mast bouncing out of the cup on the top. Bungee tye down must have come of on the awful speed bumps at Draycot 
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How do people trail to Europe.  Eg. Do you hang the lighting board off the pintals or do you have to have the trailer arms?   I am guessing the latter, even though transom hung is probably better. 
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Bit of an old one to revive , but I'm using a plastic decking plank (cut to size) for the new light board..
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Originally posted by wolfram

Hi,

I'm looking for tips on designing a lighting board for trailering my dinghy (Phantom)

It has pintels on the transom - so was going to cut a bit of MDF to attach number plate and lights to - with a high 'U' shaped bit in the middle to take the mast.

However, I'm a bit worried about weather (will MDF just disintegrate over time) and weight (will it be too much strain on the transom)

Toying with the idea of buying a UPVC window board and fashioning it out of that

Another question - how wide should it be? is 4 foot wide enough?

I took a piece of 10mm marine ply (actually 2 bits of 5mm, glued together), about 10" wide and tall enough to fit the pintle / gudgeon and mast cut out, couple of coats of yacht varnish and then bolted a 4' 6" lightboard from screwfix to it - still going strong 5 years later 
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