[quote=MN3][quote]MN3, SamC: Out of curiosity, what exactly makes the tilt trailer so much of a hassle?[/quote]
The local who had a 10' mystere purchased the boat with a pretty crappy tilt trailer - needed lots of attention
when it finally failed, he tried to copy Mike Krantz beautiful tilt trailer with shocks to help lift/lower the tilt.
He built it using the old trailer and it ended up being the perfectly wrong setup
rollers were too high off the ground making getting it on and off the trailer a lot harder
the shocks were great but not exactly perfect - so the last few inches of needed were not aided by the shock, so the guy had to lift about 60% of the weight to get the supports in/out - looked like a hernia waiting to happen
it was so much extra work that he gave up and quit sailing
(rigging this big boat was also part of the issue - if you have dedicated crew / and or the RIGHT tilt trailer it would have been a different story[/quote]
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