I am thinking of purchasing a 18 ft red jacket trailer sailer from southern Tasmania and transporting it to northern tasmania. The issue is the red jacket is located in the water and doesnt come with a trailer. How would I transport it given the red witch has a unique style of trailer due to its small fixed keel (it is like a trailer sailer/fixed keel hybrid).
I have thought of possible making a cheap timber frame for it at location and transporting on a car trailer. Would this work or does anyone have any suggestions

redwitch said...

I am thinking of purchasing a 18 ft red jacket trailer sailer from southern Tasmania and transporting it to northern tasmania. The issue is the red jacket is located in the water and doesnt come with a trailer. How would I transport it given the red witch has a unique style of trailer due to its small fixed keel (it is like a trailer sailer/fixed keel hybrid).
I have thought of possible making a cheap timber frame for it at location and transporting on a car trailer. Would this work or does anyone have any suggestions

yes you can do it, a mate had a diamond.... [30ft keel boat ply construction] [ 4'8'' keel aprox ] he had a timber frame bolted , and sat the boat it in a tandem trailer using a gantry ,assemble the frame around the boat ,then drive away. looked fairly radical but it worked.

Thanks for the replies guys. This is the only one I have seen over here. I think I will go with prefabing three pieces of timber to fit on the car trailer tray butted up against the small side walls of the trailer. I will have these approx 30 cm apart to sit under the keel sole. Six vertical pieces extending up both sides. When yacht is in position bolt in six pieces on top of the three horizontal pieces, butted up against the keel to prevent it from slipping out sideways. Lastly three pieces bolted above the yacht connecting the vertical pieces. Then using truck ratchets over the yacht to keep it down.