Experiencewas my guide on the trailer search. In my past horse show life in the 1970s, during the days of the big square two-horse Miley trailer, I hauled a two-horse straight load bumper pull with tack compartment and ramp. It fit my horse, a 15hh AQHA gelding, well and my Ford F150 was put to good use.
Today I have not changed my mind about the advantages of a straight load trailer. Also, the LaGrande is fairly easy to hitch up. My tow vehicle is a 1999 Ford F-250 SuperDuty diesel with an extended cab, short bed, and 4WD, so I can opt for a gooseneck or a larger, longer trailer if I want.
We anticipate this to be one of the most frequently asked questions by people considering a tiny home on wheels so we want to give a little in-sight into our reasoning, which of course, is not the rule, it is just what worked best for us at the time.
Iron Eagle designs a trailer meant to have the floor famed inside and below we will talk more about that and a few other key features that led to our decisions to go with Iron Eagle Trailers that we illustrated in the diagram above.
Sure. I started off playing saxophone, but being an angsty teenager I thought playing bass in punk bands would be cooler. I eventually realized that bands were too dramatic for me, and around that time was introduced to electronic and industrial music by my friends. I was instantly taken by it and got into IDM and ambient music, which was a natural bridge into trailer music.
i have the same trailer but mine has the optional dual purpose hitch on it. (ball on one end clevis on other.) i have the parts catalog for wagons and trailers and it is a international NO.5 tilt bed trailer. Says built 1961 and since. my book was issued 9-'70 so i dont know when they stopped production.
I have the 2018 Pro model for my 200SN. It is rubbing the gel coat off my front chins. The bunk sits right under the chin. I don't trailer the boat much but would like to. It sits mostly on my lift during the season. The damage was done from the few times I have used it.
All this being said I have been in contact with Boatmate and they are working on a fix and are nearly done with it (so they tell me). They are working with Nautique on the final go through. They said they want to fix it once and fix it right before releasing it. They had a similar problem with the new SN also and they know the 200 is now not going away. They have been responsive to my emails and calls. Now I just need to be patient for the fix that I hope is coming
CAUTION, once you do this never unhook the boat winch from the trailer before launching and never pull out of the ramp after loading without attaching the trailer winch. If you do you will be calling a crane company to pick your boat off the ramp!!!!
We have not sent out any of the linear braces yet. We sent one of the first renditions to Skip Dunlop to test out for us, but that is the only one. I have been pushing our administrative team to get these things ready to ship and we hit a snag. We got the first manufactured pieces from our suppliers and found the measurements they used were incorrect according to the drawing we supplied. We returned those and are awaiting our second batch. The trailers you may be seeing are the newer 200 or Ski Nautiques that have the roller welded to a cross member. Those are the updated version we have worked into our 2019 and 2020 design. With your trailer being and older version, you will require the linear brace that runs vertically between cross members.
I know this has been a long drawn out process and I know this is an issue for many. I have tried to get my administrative team to get this thing released, and they have not authorized me to send these units out. They are trying to make sure the braces will be absolutely correct before they ship them. I apologize again, but my hands are tied up in waiting on my supervisors (Owner and VP) to release the braces.
For all the technology that goes into our new generation ski boats, little technology and thought goes into the trailers. I complained years ago to Correct Craft management that they should be building their own trailers and designing them. One of the responses was, "who cares about the trailer?" I think for most of the ideas from this stem from where they are located. In Central Florida, a lot of owners don't even have trailers.
Trailers used to be important to me before I had my lift. As a matter of fact most of my worst moments of boat ownership have revolved around the trailers. I think Mastercraft had it right in manufacturing their own trailers. My Ramlin trailer is awful when it comes to loading and unloading my 200. Is built pretty well but too utilitarian in design. I want a trailer that looks like a custom car and functions very well. I just don't know why marketing people don't see this as important. I think most trailer companies scan or measure the bottoms of the boat and make bunks the fit the bottom of the boat and give little thought into what happens during loading.
I ordered a 2018 Boatmate for my '06 196 last year, $6.5K delivered. Filled out the "build sheet" with how I wanted the trailer built. Trailer arrived at my local Nautique dealer about 2.5 months later and when I picked it up I noticed it did not have the boat guides so I asked where they were. Was told by my dealer that "I must not have checked that box as they are an option". What? I went back to the website for boatmate and confirmed there was no "check box" for boat guides and read on the site that boat guides are standard equipment on ALL tournament boat trailers. In talking to Boatmate it was discovered they did not even weld in the boat guide supports or anchor points so could not just have them shipped to me and place them in. They at first were going to find a local welding shop to do this work but I knew after paint and the placement of the Seadeck, it would never look the same as original so nixed that suggestion.
Now to the issue with loading and unloading - the same as many of you have had with the bow eye and trying to get the boat on the trailer with the bow eye "above" the bow roller on the trailer. Damn near impossible without putting the rear tires of my SUV ('18 Explorer) completely in the water to either load or launch the boat. A true PITA x2. Someone has totally missed the design on the front bow roller positioning or the bunks or both.
I have had a couple of plates made that I hope solves the problem, mounted them last night and will launch/load this weekend and see if this made any improvement or needs further tweaking. I will repost my success or failure with this attempted fix.
@skiinxs yes, it is crazy steep so I have to have the trailer in deep to get over the bow stop. Same when launching, if the bow eye is over the roller when trying to launch, I can't even power off unless I have the trailer very deep in the water.
@bracemaker The boat could go up the roller in the original position just as easy, the ratchet strap and safety strap would allow the boat to go up the roller a short distance, as the stern tie downs might allow also. Would have to be a panic stop, which is certainly possible but in reality I don't think it can go too far forward, hopefully the back of the SUV would stop it also :o I think I could also put a through bolt in the first hole forward of the bow roller, make a short safety chain attached to this bolt and quick connect to the bow eye which would prevent the boat from a forward slide or potentially run the current safety strap on the boat side of the bow roller
My original "fix" was not completely successful as the bow eye still hit and got hung up on the bow roller both launching and loading, yes our ramp drops off very fast. My fix, which solved the problem I was having, was just to reverse the brackets I had made. This placed the roller above the bow eye and eliminated the problem as well as the concern of not allowing the boat to move "up" the roller on a panic stop. It did move the boat back on the trailer about 3" which I don't see as a problem. The bolt blue circled is the original roller location. I am curious if anyone sees an issue I have not thought of? All feedback is much appreciated.
The pre-Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer dump was probably supposed to end with Pan. But then the film got moved from July 24th to October 9th of this year, so now we have that slightly delayed second trailer with the new release date proudly advertised. Yes, I wrote most of this back in late April during that brutal pre-Avengers trailer drop week, although the trailer dropped last night on the Tonight Show hence this untimely publication. I suppose a drop with Walt Disney's Tomorrowland makes more sense anyway. As I'm assuming you know, this Warner Bros./ Time Warner Inc. release is a big-budget prequel to the original Peter Pan story. The picture stars Hugh Jackman in wild-eyed villain mode as Blackbeard, along with Garrett Hedlund as the future Captain Hook and newbie Levi Miller as a young Peter Pan.
The most controversial piece of casting was of course Rooney Mara as Tiger Lilly , as it seemed to be another case of whitewashing, casting a white actress (with zero box office draw) as a character best known as a Native American. I roll my eyes as much at that as anyone , but I'm just as grumpy about Mara seemingly playing a somewhat subservient role who announces that the young man will save them all and then presumably engages in just enough sword fighting to put in a trailer campaign. I may be wrong about that in terms of the final film, but history shows that I'm usually not wrong about that.
The film, at least how it's being sold, feels like a prototypical version of Hollywood's current trend of raiding every known property, especially every old fantasy property, and fashioning some kind of prequel/sequel that melts the elements down to a generic fantasy action template. Come what may, it was almost refreshing that Walt Disney just gave Kenneth Branagh $95 million to just tell the story of Cinderella with few embellishments and no overtly action-based moments. If it sounds like I'm being too hard on a film that I haven't seen, perhaps I am. I was totally in the tank for Jurassic World based on the first teaser and the comments director Colin Trevorrow made about his sequel's cultural implications (a world grown bored by the once unimaginable), but the film looks less interesting the more we see of it.
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