With a pontoon boat all you really need is a flatbed trailer, Try a
local equipment rental dealer. UD

Right. An eight foot wide flatbed trailer rental with a winch. I see those
every day. Getting it off will require half of your tow vehicle to be in the
water. Go for plan "A" that Rod proposed...

Dan


UglyDan®©™ wrote:

With a pontoon boat all you really need is a flatbed trailer, Try a
local equipment rental dealer. UD

(Dan=A0Krueger)wrote
Right. An eight foot wide flatbed trailer rental with a winch.

Your're kidding right?

I see those every day.

Me too!

Getting it off will require half of your tow vehicle to be in the water.

Still driving that Yugo??

Go for plan "A" that Rod proposed...
Dan

Stick to politics, its your forte.

UD



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"UglyDan®©T" wrote in message
...
With a pontoon boat all you really need is a flatbed trailer, Try a
local equipment rental dealer. UD

The equipment rental dealer is not going to be very happy that you dunked
his trailer in the water, unless he equipped it with water proof lights and
had bearing buddies.

I am not sure where you would get one wide enough. The beam on the Sun
Catcher is 8'6", the full legal limit. That beam is to the pontoons, so you
would need a flatbed trailer that had the bed extent the full legal limit so
that the pontoons would rest on the bed of the trailer. This would require
that the bed be built over the top of the wheels, since the wheels would not
be able to extend past the bed and still be a legal width. This puts the
bed of the trailer fairly high, which requires the trailer to be backed
pretty deep into the water, which creates issues for the water tightness of
lights and axels plus could be an issue with the tow vehicle getting it in
that far.

If you could find a suitable trailer to rent, there is still the issue of it
being suitable for dunking in the water.

Rod

Rod,
You made a few good points, but the pontoon boat trailers I've seen do
have the bed over the wheels, as far as bearing buddies go, all I can
say is my 83 caulkins whaler trailer, and my 71 Correct Craft SN trailer
have done just fine without them. Although the CC trailer has only seen
fresh water, Then again I do maintain all my own equipment. UD



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"UglyDan®©T" wrote in message
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Rod,
You made a few good points, but the pontoon boat trailers I've seen do
have the bed over the wheels,

I have seen several different types. For a pontoon boat that is less than
the legal width, sitting the pontoons on runners inside the wheel wells is
possible. Such an example is he

http://home.flash.net/~dorsey/pontoon.htm

Because the wheels are outside of the pontoons either the boat has to be
less than legal width or the trailer has to be oversize, which would make
renting at a utility yard unlikely.


Most of the trailers I see for the full legal width boats support the boat
under the floor/deck and have the wheels inside the pontoons. Such a
trailer can be seen he

http://www.theboatexchange.com/rental/rental_index.cfm

Note the boat in the background has the pontoons beyond the trailer wheels.

Of course, looking for this picture to show you I solved the guy's problem:
that web site rents boat trailers!


Rod

Rod,
Good info & research, I stand corrected!
UD



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