Alpheus
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Take A Look At This Trailer... ***UPDATE***
I picked this boat up last week for a hell of a deal (or so I thought) The boat is a 94 Sea Ray 200BR Here is a link to that post:
http://clubsearay.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25914
I bought this boat off of a MasterCraft dealer who took the boat in on a trade. He said that the original trailer was shot that was on the boat and that He had put the boat onto this trailer. A 2006 MasterCraft trailer. I noticed the rust spots on it but He told me that it was cosmetic and the trailer was structurally sound and that it was just serviced in August. Now being a 2006 trailer and He knows more about these trailers than I do,who was I to argue. Now the price was right the boat and I figured the trailer would be an added bonus right??? WRONG!!!
Last night I decided to move my boat from one side of the driveway to the other to get some stuff out of my garage. I hooked up the boat,put the truck in gear pulled up about 3 feet and heard a load thud.
Here is the outcome:
Keep in mind that this trailer is less than 3 years old. This could have snapped off when I was bringing it home and could have killed someone.
Anyways after allot of help from my neighbors we got the trailer up on some blocks and I snapped a couple of pics of the carnage. I couldn't snap pics of it still hooked to my truck because I was in the middle of the street. I had to turn the truck around and drag it backwards off the road.
This trailer is 100% trash there is nothing to weld to so as to repair it. How many of these trailers are traveling up and down the coastal states that are older than this one? Where this frame broke there is no way to rinse salt water out of the inside of the tube frame.
I picked this boat up last week for a hell of a deal (or so I thought) The boat is a 94 Sea Ray 200BR Here is a link to that post:
http://clubsearay.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25914
I bought this boat off of a MasterCraft dealer who took the boat in on a trade. He said that the original trailer was shot that was on the boat and that He had put the boat onto this trailer. A 2006 MasterCraft trailer. I noticed the rust spots on it but He told me that it was cosmetic and the trailer was structurally sound and that it was just serviced in August. Now being a 2006 trailer and He knows more about these trailers than I do,who was I to argue. Now the price was right the boat and I figured the trailer would be an added bonus right??? WRONG!!!
Last night I decided to move my boat from one side of the driveway to the other to get some stuff out of my garage. I hooked up the boat,put the truck in gear pulled up about 3 feet and heard a load thud.
Here is the outcome:
Keep in mind that this trailer is less than 3 years old. This could have snapped off when I was bringing it home and could have killed someone.
Anyways after allot of help from my neighbors we got the trailer up on some blocks and I snapped a couple of pics of the carnage. I couldn't snap pics of it still hooked to my truck because I was in the middle of the street. I had to turn the truck around and drag it backwards off the road.
This trailer is 100% trash there is nothing to weld to so as to repair it. How many of these trailers are traveling up and down the coastal states that are older than this one? Where this frame broke there is no way to rinse salt water out of the inside of the tube frame.
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