I bought the same trailer that Tiki showed, except I put cradles fore and aft. Also moved the wheels forward about 12 inches to give it a little better balance.

My front beam sits about 12 inches behind the from cross bar, about the same for the rear. This position seems to fit the ride of the trailer and rear quarter panel of the two vehicle (big GMC Yukon XL gas guzzler) better.

proudly presenting my trailer

Jaap Haasnoot

Tried but it didn't seem to take.
User error?

Thanks folks for all the great ideas and photos.
You have made it much easier for me to visualize the task and possible options.
I knew there was reason I like cat sailors best.
John D, right next door to Surf City, USA

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Now you're talkin' options!!

Huh that is weird.

I'll look into that.

Wouter

Hi ,

The way Jaap is moving his boat is my upinion the best way to do, you are carrying the boat on the more stronger parts of the boat and not on the weaker hull parts. It is also easy to put the boat on the trailer. So this is also the way i do trailering my boat. I will make a picture from it and put this on the web.

Folks,
It is also the way I trailer my boat.
I used to have photos of my nine year old sone putting the boat on the trailer on my web site. Not sure if they are still there.

Regards,
Phill

I had the double rollers in the rear and cradles up front setup but I added a 1 inch thick foam pad (a cheap cut up swim toy from Walmart) between the rollers and hulls after loading, to cushion any bumps and spread the load.

I once saw a brand new Inter 20 on a single rear roller setup that had been trailered to a boat show. It had two round dents in the hulls where it was bouncing up and down on the single rollers. Ugly sight on a brand new boat!

Got it to work.
I guess I was using the Caps key for the letter in the code. When I entered it lower case, it worked.
Thanks

Alright ! Well come to our world member map.

Wouter

I'm in simular possition as JJD. Have Blade ordered and should be done in next few weeks. bought an old Highlander trailer which was used on TheMightyHobie18. Am curious about JAAP's trailering but don't visualize easy loading as Hans sugests. sailing solo. Will Lints

Will,
I assumed Jaap's set up is similar to mine.
Jaap please speak up if I'm wrong.
I came up with this for two reasons. I don't like my boat sitting on some pads tat will eventually degrade the finish on the hulls where the pads arfe and second is I wanted a system that would allow me to rig and derig including getting the boat on and off the trailer all by myself.
I will attach a couple of pics that show the loading.
Basically the beam comes down on a couple of slides that support the boat as it moves forward on the trailer.
Like Kirt mentioned on an earlier post my beach wheels go under the rear beam. The trailer takes both boats and once my Blade is rigged I just use the spinnaker pole as a handle and pic it up to move the boat around. The pics I'll attach are of my Taipan going onto the trailer.
They were taken a while back and my son (9 at the time) easily picks the back of the boat up.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Phill

Picking up and sliding on.

The loading can be very easy with that setup. Phill himself and Geert use s similar setup.

Pretty much you have two beams which acts as rails and you have two cars that move along the beams (rails)

Some make sliding cars others just used a U-profile with bolts and small wheels. It alls dependent on how nice you want the system to glide/roll.

The cars are at the back of the boat when loading the boat to the trailer. The cat track is underneath the sterns. You grap a bow and walk up to the trailer laying the mainbeam onto the cars. Sometimes you can the tweak a little so that the dolphin striker is clear. Then you walk to the back of the boat, untie the cat tracks, and you lift the boat by the rearbeam. This is very light as the beam is already supported partly by the mainbeam. You lift the platform so it is horizontal and walk the boat onto the trailer while the care slide or roll forward. Then you gently put the rearbeam onto the beams that also acted as rails. Before driving and tying the boat down your lay same formed foam blocks underneath the rearbeam so you don't damage it.

That is it.

Wouter

My trailer has also the sliding construction.
When I used it for my a-cat I could put the boat on the trailer on my own.
Jaap

Will you all please expand a bit more on the slides/wheels?

I'm going to use this galvanized, welded, U-channel for the rail.

Where did you find channel like that? It looks like great stuff.

A quick peek at the image properties reveals

http://www.unistrut.com/Browse/pages/P1001.gif

So I am guessing ??Unistrut?? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Yup, didn't know you could do that. Neat trick.