Hey all, when I had my trailor made, I wanted tandem axles because I didn't want to have a blowout with a 2500 lb boat on a singleaxle trailer. (In my younger years I used to help my dad haul a couple cows at a time to the market and remember a single axle trailer, a blowout at 45 mph with two steers in excess of 500 lbs each, and my dad fighting to keep from flipping the trailer and us...so I decided tandem.) When my boat was placed by truck crane on the trailer, the 4 inch channel that they had under the centerboard support bent but was hidden from me until I had the boat placed on another trailer so I could resolve some rust issues that were starting to popup.I ended up sanding/grinding the entire trailer and repainting with Rustoleum metal primer (2 coats) followed by (3 coats) of Rustoleum Bright galvanized compound. But before I did the repainting, I had 4 crosspieces of 4 inch channel welded in between the other existing 4 pieces. They then straightened the the bent channel that was the underlayment for the then centerboard wood with a 10 foot lenth of 2x8x10 channel steel. I then purchased a 2x10x10 .40 treated pine and applied 4 coats of epoxy all around to seal it up. Three years later, it still looks good. Now, I just need to get over this past surgery, find out the problem with the keel and finally get Selah in the water. I am not advocating for any brand of paint, but this is what I used. The 6 bunkboard tubes were welded to the frame with 2 nuts welded on each in which the tubes the bunkboards are mounted on could be adjusted in case I was hauling someone else's boat. Plus. I thought it might add to the value if someone ever wanted to buy the trailer. Lol. Have a good evening all.
James