Well I think it's time.

I've accumulated 3 boards, a mini-mal, 4 masts, 3 booms and half a dozen sails. I'm either gonna have to leave the family at home or get myself a trailer to cart all my kit around.

Any suggestions on where, or from whom, I should procure one in Perth

Cheers
Pointman

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Originally posted by Mark _australia

Build one yourself!

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Yes. You'll suit your needs best if you design for yourself. Here is a link to a page with a collection of links and discussions about trailer design:
http://windsurf.hansanderson.com/stow.html

There are van links there as well.

Great links,

Check this windsurfing van.

www.steynfamily.com/ultimate_windsurfing_van_02.htm

Looks like a 5 star room, you can park and enjoy any view you choose.

Cheers GT

excelent product to build a trailer is the aluminium clad insulated panels.

you can mitre out the back and folded it or cut to lengths and use aluminuim extruded joiners. it has far better bracing capacity then .8mm and can act as the structural too so you will only need a few angles or box sections as strengthening. comes in 50mm thick up to 200mm thick.

it will also protect your gear from the heat and will make an excellent beer fridge trailer.

just by some aluminium extrusions to rivet it all tegether etc.

http://www.halesandlunn.com.au/project.htm

.those fiberglass trailers are great...but look at the weight...a lot of weight for a trailer...minimum weight they state [750kg] is like towing a car trailer with a googomobil on it or a small caravan.
i am assuming the gross weight refers to the trailers total weight and not its legal maximum towing weight of load and trailer?

Problem is fiberglass can be a heavy solution..ie it needs to be very thick to support a long flat section.
...of coarse you can corrugate it to increase strength but that just increases surface area and adds more weight [catch 22].
those old fiberglass caravans were not necessarily lightweight.

ironically a small rounded car body..ie goggomobil can be very light,,,the strength is in the shape per thickness.[I know as I own many fiberglass cars.]
When a large flat area is needed to have even just the strength to stop it flexing in the wind the thickness must be greater and thus the weight goes up
If you are intending on doing long drives you dont want to feel you are towing the weight of a caravan including the bulk of one.
The ideal weight in NSW for example is under 250 kg...cheap $50 rego and no brakes needed.
Or making a removable box on an existing trailer so as to not go over the cheap rego/weight.

Besides 250kg plus gear is an easy tow..I used to tow a camping trailer of 250kg behind my 1955 Morris Minor Panel van with a 950 cc motor.
ideally with a modern car I find over 450 kg a real pain in the ...
so ideally I would aim for a trailer weight of 250kg and whatever the weight is of gear.

the options offered by posters above in making your own trailer makes good economic sense but more importantly weight criteria.

no thats why I upgraded the morris minor.

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Originally posted by mineral1

Had this from last year some time.
ozmac.com/index.php

Maybe some help for those contemplating a build program.
Lucky for me, I have some of the gear Gestalt indicated (panels)
We have just installed a 10m W by 8m H by 20m long spray booth and a few panels left over, so just enough for windsurfing trailer.
No idea what it will look like yet, need one of my team to draw up a plan for me
Mineral

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Another nice trailer indeed, I have been considering this option as I am space poor, I doubt it will happen, nice link Mino.

Cheers GT

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Originally posted by WINDY MILLER



let me know how u go, hmmm noice stoney have u christened her yet?

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Not yet. Hopefully Friday...forecast looks promising.

Don't buy your materials from Bunnings.
Get it from a steel merchant like Midalia or One Steel.
You'll get a 6m length for the same price as a 2m length from Bunnies.
As long as you can move 6m lengths, it's a very cheap way.
I have a Landcruiser and i bolt a support to the roo bar so 6m fits on the roof perfectly.
If you've only got a Morris then it'll be tricky.

Here's my baby. It just survived the 2000km round trip from Wollongong to the Gold Coast. The box drops-in, lifts-out of a std 6 x 4 box trailer. I just need to weld up a frame to be able to do this single-handed. It is just on 3m long thanks to the taper all the way up the drawbar, and 1140mm wide. (However this means I can't open the rear tailgate on the car with the trailer attached - not a problem if you have a sedan). Cost me about $120 for downgrade tubing from metaland, $120 for the corrugated cladding, another $100 in welding rods, hinges, etc. Best thing I did was make the internal cross-rack removable - all the gear and racks come out to make an awesome trailer for moving house, moving rubbish etc.
Eckas

www.seabreeze.com.au/gallery/gallery.asp?imageid=3552&text=eckas

No very very valid point. Never thought of it but most places we sail have small carparks and / or are where lots of normal people go.
WA guys, think Dutchies in a 25kn seabreeze on a Saturday in December. Try and park near that one!