WANTED: Used Trailer

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Flutterby

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My son needs to upgrade the trailer for Flutterby to one which will withstand towing an 8k lbs boat from the Bay Area up the AlCan to Alaska.

Charlie has found that the current trailer was not built for such a heavy boat or long arduous tow.

Please email me if you know one.

Thanks,
 
I've found the cost difference between used and new is not worth messing with used. People seem to think trailers do not depreciate. I'm talking less than $5-6 hundred.
 
I am sure there are place closer to you but I have gotten some good parts off this guy. go to google maps and put in 38.566515,-121.252156 it is the boat recycle yard at the green arrow. sorry I don't know the exact address.
 
That's not far from where shed lives.

I've been there. The prices were ridiculously expensive. Never bought anything from them.

There's a place not too far from them that had more reasonable prices...except they'll say they have whatever you want but when you go up there, they don't know what you're talking about. I quit going to either one over 10-15 years ago.
 
That is about 2 hr drive away from me. Charlie, maybe their business practices are different now?
 
Yeah, personal referrals are better, but I have seen quite a few trailers in your size range listed on craigslist recently.

As usual, it's buyer beware..., but you seem to have a good friend that can check them out for you.

Good luck!
 
Flutterby, I forgot how long your boat is so I used 24 feet on a shipping estimator looked up the zip codes for Nome Alaska and San Pablo Calif and got estimates between $1500 and $2500. I think it might be cheaper and easier to ferret out a good shipper, put some shipping insurance on it and send her on her way up to Nome. I will send you an email with the shipping estimator I used since we are not suppose to put links to other businesses on this forum. DD
 
Welllll, Doug has to buy a truck AND trailer for the boat. The present trailer will work as long as all he's doing is launching and retrieving with only very short runs to the launch ramp...

...soooo, I agree, it might be easier in the long run to put good tires on the present trailer and ship it.
 
Thanks for the emailed link. I forwarded that to Doug. Is this to ship by truck or barge or what????
The prices seems awfully cheap.
 
I am not sure if it was the site I mailed to Flutterby but a friend used a shipper whereby you setup bidding process so the shippers can bid on and win your shipping business. My friend had time and he got a good deal. If Flutterby's son has time maybe he could find someone bringing pallets of canned salmon, crabs or caribou down from Alaska and rather than head back with an empty truck they swap out the trailer for a low boy ratchet tite Flutterby down and "poof" she is up in Alaska and Flutterby's son is bringing in pots of snow crabs accross her transom awaiting fresh drawn butter.
 
Yes it was that site that I sent you that my friend had used successfully, from the home page, there is a how to use and list your shipment then sit back and start receiving bids. I would guess most bids he would get would be by truck but who cares as long as it is cheap and reliable. I am sure your son will figure it out. Competition is good for the consumer, isn't America great?!
 
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