trailers

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In the trailer forum at iboats, seems the consensus about rollers or bunks depends on when hull was built, and if trailer was setup properly.

Older boats like my '72 came with a 14 hull rollers, and that was it. Side pieces of wood were only to help guide it on. Looking at photos of other old Wellcraft boats, and many used the exact same trailer.

Don't know how common forklifts and dry storage was in '72, but today it is common. Today's hull are for the most part designed for bunks.

Most will work with either, but you don't want to use a trailer that supports boat with rollers "only" if it only uses 4 or 5 rollers. Weight must be spread out. 4 or 5 rollers along with bunks works, or just bunks.

While we rebuild the roller trailer, friend is letting us borrow his new bunk trailer with zero rollers. Works great but is scary. If one of the wood bunks splits....