Hi. I just got a little Jon Boat that's really great. But the trailer
looks like it came out of a junkyard. So I'm replacing a lot of parts
on it.
It has the two, carpeted wooden slats on it. However, the brackets that
hold them onto the trailer are rusted off completely. I initially
thought of just replacing these brackets. But then I ran across these
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...1/641/11210/17
"glide slicks". They seem cheap, and would be much easier to replace
than to try and get the remainder of these rusted brackets off. Is the
only purpose of those wooden slats the same as these slicks? Or are
they better at holding the boat onto the trailer? Like I said, it's a
really small, light boat. All aluminum. So it doesn't need much,
trailer wise. But there's not much holding it onto the trailer. It just
sits on a couple of rollers.
Which brings me to my second question: Do I even need rollers for this
small boat? I need to replace the ones that are on there. But then I
see a lot of small trailers don't even have them. So should I just do
away with them?
Thanks,
Sam