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    Posted: 09 Feb 16 at 12:54pm
Do what I do and store the useless lighting board in the garage and revert to the lighting board fitted to the rudder fittings. Like most people I use it to support my mast as well.
 
You are going to be extremely unlucky to get stopped by a police office and get a ticket for not using the supplied lighting board. How is a policeman going to be able to tell the age of your trailer when you are driving past at 60mph.
 
However the lighting board is usefull if you are removing the trailer without a boat
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As well as the perfectly valid points above, what also I don't get is that the price of a typical road-base has gone from circa £350 to over double that.

The good news is that it can make buying old knockers of boats that come with a reasonably combi a deal worth doing. You get a combo for less than retail and can make GRF happy by putting the knocker on the bonfire. There's a business in this for someone somewhere.
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If you PM me I know a company that was still happy to make new old style roadbases as they claim to have found a loophole.
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Originally posted by gordon1277

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If you PM me I know a company that was still happy to make new old style roadbases as they claim to have found a loophole.
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Could someone explain as you would to a child, what exactly has happened, between the lines I'm getting some new EU legislation which I guess our Government jobsworths can't wait to enforce whilst the French will duly ignore, as if we haven't enough reasons to vote out already, so when did/does this come into force?
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Originally posted by fab100

As well as the perfectly valid points above, what also I don't get is that the price of a typical road-base has gone from circa £350 to over double that.
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Trailers now have to be type approval tested which has added a lot of cost, or excluded a few small makers.
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As far as I understand things.
We are catching up with existing EU legislation. I believe that on the continent trailers have to be tested as a functioning unit (I guess somewhat like an MOT) and that is partly the reason that the lights have to be part of the trailer and not lashed to the load.
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Originally posted by Do Different

As far as I understand things.
We are catching up with existing EU legislation. I believe that on the continent trailers have to be tested as a functioning unit (I guess somewhat like an MOT) and that is partly the reason that the lights have to be part of the trailer and not lashed to the load.

In Germany, a trailer has its own reg number. Or used to.
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trailers are registered in oz too, I used to have one but they didn't have ridiculous cantilevered tailboards flapping all over the place!
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basically all new road traillers are supposed to include a way of having the lighting board on a bracket at the rear of the boat so its part of the trailor without this being attached to the boat itself. So you end up with a sliding piece of metal which can bounce around come out loose rather than as we have always done tye the lighting board onto the transom or hook onto the pintels as I do.( which as we all know never comes off!)
For towing around the UK you can get away with an old style but I think in Europe they are not accepteable anymore.
The German Halbeck trailers were always built like this for the Dutchman but were about 1Ok woth the combi trolley.
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Excellent reason to leave the EU

I took delivery of a brand new ISO complient trailer.  One of the lightboard securing bolts shook loose on the way to Weymouth, the arm dragged along the road and the light board was written off ... never had this problem before in 30 years of trailering 

... I have reverted to hanging the lightboard on the transom, with the mast resting on top.  Lightboard secures to pintles with retaining clip, and mast held in place with single piece bungee. I use the spare end if the boat securing strap to add a turn around the middle of the mast for a bit of belt and braces.
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