single axel trailer

[bluedog]

I've got a 6-lug single axel trailer for my 79 v20 inboard.With fuel and gear 3500lb conservative weight right? I will be driving this combo at least 100 miles a weekend is this trailer enough? I have seen way to many horror shows on the side of 495s and rt3s on the weekends and I don't want to be one of them. Also what type of tires are best, the trailer is ezloader and the stern hangs over a few inches. How do I post pics here anyway?????????????THANKS

[Seakindly]

Bluedog,

What is the GVWR on your trailer?
There should be a sticker on your trailer with this info.
Also, don't know what your state is, but it probably is on your regi.

Weight of fully loaded boat will be at least 4000, not counting the trailer.

I trailer 70 - 75 miles round trip every time I use my boat. If you are also a trailer boater, you should be looking into a beefier tandem axle. Your state may also REQUIRE you to have brakes at these weights.

[chumbucket]

I agree with Seakindly. You should be using a trailer rated for at least 4600 lbs GVWR for safe trailering. Massachusetts does require brakes on at least one axle for trailers over 3000 lbs I believe although they are not that strict on the requirement. When it comes time to replace my trailer, I would like to upgrade to a tandem axle too. Probably best to spring for the stainless disc brakes if you're considering brakes. I had galvanized drum brakes on my 6000 lb trailer for the Grady and they F'd up a couple of times even though I flushed them every trip and the trailer was brand new. I ended up disableing them after the second time.

[Seakindly]

BLUEDOG, my trailer is 5400 GVWR. The trailer itself weighs 1200. That leaves a capacity for 4200 for the boat. I figure my rig is about 3600. That is just a guess, but I have a margin of error of 600 and I am cool with that.

You also asked about tires. The very best tire is one that has a spare already in place if it goes flat or blows out -- that is one on a tandem trailer. As for specs - get the biggest diameter, widest and highest load rating you can.

[macojoe]

Well i have a old 1980 calkins trailer that was a 3100# trailer when i got it. I had to replace the axle and springs and made the 3500# I use my trailer alot and it has always been ok but i always worry!!

I am looking to buy a new trailer now and just went to a guy who sell ezloaders and he use to sell the V20 years ago.

He says a 3100# is for light use to and from morring or not to far from the house.

He has advised me to go with the:
Model-- TEZL96 hull leanth- 17 to 22-- 4000#--24 roller -- spring axle style --tire size ST175\80R 13C -- 79" between fenders-- 96" total width -- total leanth 23'-- trailer weight id 901#
about $2500

So all I need now is a buyer for my 1992 Johnson 115 and I will buy a trailer

[Seakindly]

MJ, THAT IS WAY TOOMUCH MONEY FOR THAT TRAILER!!! >:(

[macojoe]

I am just starting to look. I thought it was!! But was just trying to give him a sugestion on what to get.

I have to look around? Cape Cod is not the place to get a trailer!!

CB, BS you no any where I can call for a price on a trailer??

[Seakindly]

MJ, THAT IS ALSO NOT ENUFF TRAILER FOR A V20.
THAT GUY SUX BIG TIME. >:(

[macojoe]

Yea and i use alot!! I fish commercial so i use everyday! I saw on some of the florida sites Aluminum trailers for less then that.
But I have heard good and bad about them??

I am so confused ???

[chumbucket]

http://www.trlrs.com/types.html
I got a decent quote from these guys a couple years ago.

[macojoe]

Oooo...Baby I am going to call tomorrow!
Thaks Honey ;)

[chumbucket]

:-*

[bluedog]

Looks like I might luck out and get a slip down in Warwick, the cost might equal a new trailer about 2200 a season, still undesided but it's only 45 min from my house!

[chumbucket]

BD, not to be critical........a slip is really nice to have but, how does $2200 per year equal the cost of a trailer? At some point at the end of the day, you're going to need a trailer on top of the yearly $2200.
I'll tell you what I'd be concerned of; the cost of gas at the dock this coming season. :o Probably going to be $3.00/gal or higher. :'( I'd rather shop on the street.

[macojoe]

And with no trailer you are stuck there!! No trips to the cape or any were for that matter!!
You here that they are having a killer year some place and you won't be able to go!
I will be getting rid of my old trailer if interested?? Good from slip to home a couple of times a year?? maybe a bit better then that but if that is all you sre going to need for?

[Seakindly]

I kept my boats in slips for 15 years, when I used my boat 5 or 6 days a week year round. For many years, the slip was behind my house or down the street. Used to be I could just tie up at day's end and go home without loclkn anything or even takin the key out of the ignition. By the time I gave up my slip (also 15 years ago), I was strippin the boat every day and lockin what I couldn't take off. That, weather worries, and a lack of mobility for the slipbound have made me a trailer boater all the way. Add CB's point about gas prices to the list.

Nowadays, you could not pay me to keep my boat in a slip. She sleeps safely in my driveway.

[bluedog]

Well I have the trailer now that it's on for trips out of the marina but it's very small. Anyway for adding larger axel and spring, or is it more cost effective just to buy a new tandem?Macojoe what have you got now?

[Seakindly]

Bluedog, if you look around you should be able to find a suitable used trailer for 1000 - 1500. New for 2200 - 2500. Then sell the old for whatever it is worth.

[chumbucket]

Yup. That's what I'd do.

[chumbucket]

bluedog, You should check out the guys on the link that I posted for MJ in this thread earlier. Coastline Trailers in Falmouth. I don't know how they are now, but they gave me a decent quote a couple years ago when I bought the trailer for my Grady. At the time, I just happened to walk into a deal where if I jumped on it right away, I could get a good price on an E-Z Loader that was already on a freight trailer on it's way here. Someone canceled, so I grabbed it.

[bluedog]

Well I'm gonna have to shake the magic 8 ball, slips are going fast and trailering this year is really giving me bad vibes. Also with a slip in RI family W/ a dock in Falmouth, and no cape traffic a slip is looking good? :o

[macojoe]

I have a old Calkins and it has been a great trailer!! I had to make my on roller brackets as they are now out of biss.
I can get at least 2 or 3 years more out of it if i try! But I trailer from yarmouth to Falmouth everyday in the months of June and July so it gets lots of use.

I changed the axle and springs aabout 3 years ago. they are 3500# and the spring s are mono, no leafs to squeek!

[bluedog]

Here's one for ya it might sound dumb but 2500 lb rims does this mean a 4000lb boat/trailer combo has equal weight distrabution of 2000lb per tire and the 2500lb rim would be o.k.?

[macojoe]

never heard it put that way??
But it is the two sides combined, Like if tires say they will hole 1500# then you have two you would carry 3000# total.
My springs are they same I belive. I have never heard of the rim's being part of it unless they ment the tires?