DSC00741 Here's what she looks like sitting on the trailer. I think the tongue weight is about 110 lbs. When I first bought the boat trailer, I brought it home and installed the sandwiched planks. Then I took two of my SB-3 Brownell's Boatyard stands with me, along with my bathroom scale. I had two jacks in my pickup truck to uses also. I don't think I even bothered messing with the two short bunks under the bow until I got my boat home on this trailer. The main bunks are the important ones that need to be set up. The bunks under the bow could be set up later on after I had the boat on the trailer.
DSC01201 These brackets are the best I've seen on the market today. As I mentioned previously, Long is out of business. They were located in Tarboro NC. Although there is another trailer company with that same name in NC, they are not and never have been affiliated with with the company that built my trailer. It' too bad because I'd love to see a company start manufacturing this long extension brackets for guys who own keel/centerboard sloops and want to trailer them. These brackets could fit any trailer cross member. They are really the only thing that makes converting an ordinary powerboat trailer into a sailboat trailer.
DSC00740 My trailer is 23' long and 8' wide at the fenders. I'm pretty sure that my bunks are 4' apart at the stern as you're looking at it now. There are two long main bunks being held up by six 24" bunk extension brackets, three on each side. The two shorter bunks under the bow are held up by four of these brackets. The bracket are set approximately in the range of 20" to 22" from the top of the A frame to the top of the bunks.
DSC00742 Like a dumbbell, I left those two two schedule 80 2" PVC pipes on those guides while trailer the boat and the 2" cap on the one on this side broke. If you buy these guides, remove the pipe when you trailer the boat on the road. You only need them when your at the ramp.
DSC00741 Here's what she looks like sitting on the trailer. I think the tongue weight is about 110 lbs. When I first bought the boat trailer, I brought it home and installed the sandwiched planks. Then I took two of my SB-3 Brownell's Boatyard stands with me, along with my bathroom scale. I had two jacks in my pickup truck to uses also. I don't think I even bothered messing with the two short bunks under the bow until I got my boat home on this trailer. The main bunks are the important ones that need to be set up. The bunks under the bow could be set up later on after I had the boat on the trailer.
DSC00402 As you can see. These brackets are strong square stock galvy tube and they are completely adjustable. If you can't find brackets like these you may have to have them made up special or have a welder make up something like poppets for boat stands that you can adjust. I really don't know what to tell you on that.
DSC00401 So what we have is a trailer that's about 23' long and 8' wide at the fenders. It's has four 14" wheels on tandem axles. The frame is Aluminum and the cross members are galvinized steel. There are six 24" galvy extension brackets that support the main section of the hull with two long bunks and four more 24" brackets with two short bunks for the bow support. I had to re-position the two short bow bunks and get them close together where the bow comes to a point. It was just a matter of taking the brackets off the bottom of the bunks, repositon them and drill and lag them into the desired position.
DSC00403 This is my 23' Long Trailer when I first brought it home. Unfortunately Long went out of business shortly after I bought this trailer. Such a shame. It too bad that some company somewhere can't manufacture the extension brackets for those bunks because they are the best I've seen on the market so far and they easy to adjust with the aid of a couple of jacks with the boat sitting on the trailer. That's how I adjusted all my brackets after I got the proper tongue weight, but that's another story. This trailer came with a thick rug covered keel board and I told the dealer to keep it. What you see in the pic is a couple of pressure treated sandwiched 2x10" planks held to the cross members with a couple of galvanized brackets that were given to me by the city power company. I picked up two brackets which are nothing more than a back strap, two 5/8" X 6.5" carriage bolts with washers and nuts. I have the carriage bolt heads counter sunk below the surface of the top plank where the keel sits. This insures that the keel won't hit the bolt heads. The plates bolt up against the bottom of each cross member. The only holes I have bored are through the wood planks and not the cross members. This works out great because I can loosen the carriage bolt nuts to loosen the back plates and be able to slide the keel board to one side or the other. I do this when I take my boat off the trailer in my yard and place her on boat stands, but that's another story. Those two guide that came with my trailer are great for centering my boat when I'm loading her on the trailer at the YC boat ramp. Some guys install keel guides but these guide are all you need, really.
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DSC00741 Here's what she looks like sitting on the trailer. I think the tongue weight is about 110 lbs. When I first bought the boat trailer, I brought it home and installed the sandwiched planks. Then I took two of my SB-3 Brownell's Boatyard stands with me, along with my bathroom scale. I had two jacks in my pickup truck to uses also. I don't think I even bothered messing with the two short bunks under the bow until I got my boat home on this trailer. The main bunks are the important ones that need to be set up. The bunks under the bow could be set up later on after I had the boat on the trailer.

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