Beach Storage
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 10:31 am
My wife owns a 1973 Sport 13. We own land on a channel (that is not beautiful) connected to a beautiful lake. The channel is very tannic stained and is horrible to leave a white Whaler with a white lower unit in. We are going to re-power this spring with a new E-TEC 25 which is even more reason to keep it out of that gross water.
The channel frontage is pretty much level and grassy. For my Alumacraft fishing boat I removed the axle on a standard roller trailer and mounted it on the "beach" so the rollers are just above the water. I just just pull my boat up to the rollers and winch it up. The deep vee helps to center the boat on the trailer and eases the winching.
[The SPORT 13] hull is so different than [Alumacraft fishing boat] I am not sure the standard roller trailers you find used here in Wisconsin would work.
Does anyone have a situation similar to this?
Seen anyone else's idea?
I'd like to keep the total cost under $1000. I paid $350 for my used roller trailer.
Even a little insight into how to properly support a Whaler Sport on a trailer or the like would be helpful. The trailer it came with is not even close to correct. Thankfully we live two blocks from the lake and that's as far as it's trailered.
Thank you.
The channel frontage is pretty much level and grassy. For my Alumacraft fishing boat I removed the axle on a standard roller trailer and mounted it on the "beach" so the rollers are just above the water. I just just pull my boat up to the rollers and winch it up. The deep vee helps to center the boat on the trailer and eases the winching.
[The SPORT 13] hull is so different than [Alumacraft fishing boat] I am not sure the standard roller trailers you find used here in Wisconsin would work.
Does anyone have a situation similar to this?
Seen anyone else's idea?
I'd like to keep the total cost under $1000. I paid $350 for my used roller trailer.
Even a little insight into how to properly support a Whaler Sport on a trailer or the like would be helpful. The trailer it came with is not even close to correct. Thankfully we live two blocks from the lake and that's as far as it's trailered.
Thank you.