Posted by Silentpardner on 08/18/13 - 4:24 PM
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You are certainly free to have bunks and no rollers on your whaler but I don't think it would provide the support necessary.
Thank you for your permission sir.
The actual relative quote from my original post is as follows sir.
The trailer we bought with the boat is a 1992 Karavan with hydraulic surge brakes and will definitely be replaced soon. This trailer is in good shape, but I am concerned with the roller side guides, (they leave black marks), and the hydraulic surge braking system. This was the first time I have ever experienced this type of braking system, and it will be the last! All that thunking at stop/starts was disconcerting, to say the least! The trailer does have a set of keel rollers that are supporting all the weight, but I prefer bunks to having any rollers on a trailer for a Boston Whaler. We will be making a trip to Magnum Trailers here in central TX very soon after the repower to get a new custom trailer built.
In the quoted text above, I apparently was not clear enough. I did not mean that I didn't want ANY ROLLERS ON THE TRAILER. All I meant by this was that I did not want ANY ROLLERS WHERE BUNKS SHOULD BE on this trailer.
I should also bring to your attention that I was in NO WAY asking for your opinion or seeking your approval on this subject. I was not asking a single question in this post, I was simply telling the story of retrieving a boat from Wisconsin. I did not ask for ANY opinions from the gallery here on powering OR trailer design for the boat. I will have to figure out how to insure in the future that I am not asking a question...for now, I will simply NOT PUT A QUESTION MARK AT THE END OF ANY SENTENCE THAT IS NOT A QUESTION.
Sometimes, I wonder why I post.
Edited by Silentpardner on 08/18/13 - 6:18 PM