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Re: PLEASE help me
By:Porter
Date: 9/12/2000, 1:13 pm
In Response To: PLEASE help me (Benita Kingsbury)

I'd look at the trailers that 505 (that's a racing dingy) sailors use. They are made by a French company called Rapide. The have several great features that would work well for kayaks.

1. Soft spring rates. You don't want to pound your beautiful yak to death with too-stiff springs.

2. Removable dollies. Basically the road trailer that hooks to the car hitch is simply a vehicle on which to mount an ultra-light dolly that is used to wheel the boat, by hand, to it's final destination. Picture this; the dolly (3-point) cradles the kayak (and the kayak is securd only to the doly) and the dolly is wheeled onto the trailer and secured with a couple pins.

3.Stacking options. As Jason mentioned. This would allow 4-6 kayaks (2 wide per level on dollies) depending on the number of levels provided.

Good luck w/ your a-levels.

Porter

Messages In This Thread

PLEASE help me
Benita Kingsbury -- 9/12/2000, 6:34 am
better shot
Philip Miles. -- 9/16/2000, 4:18 am
I have a trailer *Pic*
Philip Miles, Walton-In-Gordano, N.Somerset. -- 9/15/2000, 6:10 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Brian Wegener -- 9/13/2000, 10:38 am
Bike trailers
Brian Nystrom -- 9/14/2000, 3:27 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
John Waddington -- 9/12/2000, 3:48 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Porter -- 9/12/2000, 1:13 pm
Real wheels
Dale Frolander -- 9/12/2000, 12:24 pm
Re: Real wheels
Don -- 9/12/2000, 5:00 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Jack Martin -- 9/12/2000, 11:56 am
Re: PLEASE help me
Kent LeBoutillier -- 9/12/2000, 11:41 am
Iron costs
Don -- 9/12/2000, 5:01 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Kent LeBoutillier -- 9/12/2000, 10:52 am
Re: PLEASE help me
tom kurth -- 9/12/2000, 8:29 pm
Re: BYOT
Shawn B -- 9/12/2000, 4:13 pm
things that I would look for in a boat trailer
Jason -- 9/12/2000, 9:56 am
Re: things that I would look for in a boat trailer
Don Beale -- 9/12/2000, 10:11 am
Re: PLEASE help me
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/12/2000, 9:14 am
Re: PLEASE help me
Ross Leidy -- 9/12/2000, 9:22 am