mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
2/27/13 5:19 p.m.

Not your usual HF or race car trailer. I am about to buy a 23 foot Sea Sprite. A full keeled sailboat with a 3 foot draft and a displacement of 3300 pounds.

So far, I either find trailers that cost more than I am buying the boat for.. or one that needs two new axles.

Any hints?

Kenny_McCormic
Kenny_McCormic Dork
2/27/13 5:26 p.m.

Hire somebody or rent one? My minimal knowledge of sailboats that size is you generally keep them in the water or in storage next to the water, so owning a trailer is unnecessary.

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
2/27/13 5:29 p.m.

that is an option.. but I would like something I can store the boat on for winter too.. rather than forking over a grand to store the boat at a yard. At least if I drag it home, I can do work to her without it becomming a big production of dragging tools and E36 M3 to the yard

Tom Suddard
Tom Suddard GRM+ Memberand Intern
2/27/13 5:58 p.m.

4 miatas with some square steel tube that makes them into a roughly rectangular shape?

Seriously though, where are you located? Around here there are a ton of nearly free boat trailers on CL.

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
2/27/13 6:40 p.m.

NJ tom.. and the cheapest I have found that can handle my boat... is $800 and needs new axles. I may have to check out some of the boat yards around here and see what has been abandoned

Tom Suddard
Tom Suddard GRM+ Memberand Intern
2/27/13 6:57 p.m.

Oh, wow! Boat trailers are basically worth scrap value down here, probably because there are so many of them.

Here's a $300 that would work, for example. It was literally the first thing I clicked. http://daytona.craigslist.org/boa/3587421492.html

Tom Suddard
Tom Suddard GRM+ Memberand Intern
2/27/13 6:59 p.m.

http://spacecoast.craigslist.org/boa/3607919029.html

Here's another.

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