Do any of you trailering or engineering folks know of something I might be missing with this 2 degree down idea?
In your original post, you quoted the above. The specs of the trailer as to GVW to include tires gross carrying load with a 10% margin is good. Vehicle very well adapted to the trailer to pull, experience of towing is good and you have several trailers weighed on each tire. Good information. However you are being confrontational and calling me out when you said false ideas came from me
I was a dealer who represented the major lines to include smaller lines over the years with nearly two million miles of towing experience with my fleet of trucks and trailers to include single, tandem, triaxle some with leaf springs and others with torsion bars and even a hydraulic trailer which I hauled up to 36 feet not going over a total of 25,500 pounds total weight of truck, trailer, boat and gear as going over 26,000 pounds would have put me into another class to include a lot higher fees. I then had the larger rigs to haul for me. In the beginning I too made some mistakes that occurred in front tires blowing out, axle fires and so on which then lead me to gain an education from the two top sailboat designers most notably Ron Frisosky now deceased. From that I designed trailers for me personally and for manufacturers. I could go on but you will understand I do have knowledge and experience with trailers. I also owned portable scales which configuring a boat for transport were put under all tires. In fact I was involved with designs of sailboats and major innovations which helps me to pass on knowledge and then your comment which needed to be addressed.
In the original post, no mention of weight of boat, motor or gear as I am not familiar with that boat and the depth of the keel . No mention of the length or width of trailer other than weights of trailer and carrying load of the tires nor placement of axles/stands/winch stand. No mention of straight hitch, drop hitch or inverted hitch, overhang, how many stands, how the mast would be loaded onto trailer/boat and so on. I could only go on what was mentioned thus far and you invited us for comments only to be chastised.
Each load on my trailers for transport included proper hitch for a level trailer, that I had a 10% but no more than 15% carrying capacity on the hitch for safety to prevent swaying particularly on the single axles. The boat or axels in some cases had to be moved but in every case that I put my individual scales under the tires, the front axle tires were generally carrying more weight keeping in mind for safety. It is easy to design a trailer to a specific boat but much harder to configure a boat to a generic trailer bought from a manufacturer.
I could go on sir but in the future may I suggest that instead of the approach you did, ask questions because others would chime in and the main purpose for this forum is to help each other instead of pointing fingers.
I am only here on this forum giving up my time to help others to include you as God was good to me in my business and felt being led to help folks here. In the future I will refrain answering your posts for information. Now for three hours today calling folks, emailing and doing some research and when I respond it is always in laymans terms so not to confuse many with my suggestions and help. So far this spring, I am lined up to travel in five cases out of state to help others only asking for out of pocket expenses only.
Dave Condon