As part of my trailer-tent trailer conversion to carry my boat project, I am considering whether to add keel rollers to the trailer’s crossbeams to aid the loading and unloading of the boat on and off the trailer. I have seen some trailers with rollers on both front and rear crossbeams; some with rollers on the rear crossbeams only, and some with no rollers at all. What are your views ?
Also, there also appear to be two types of rollers – either a “cotton-reel” style or a “V” style. Again, any comments ?
Where no rollers are fitted, what sort of padding material has been used to cushion the hull contact areas?
Would someone be so kind as to provide me with some measurements (metric) please? I need the following:
1. Distance from towball to front crossbeam
2. Distance from front crossbeam to rear crossbeam
3. Assuming rollers are fitted, the distance between the centre of the LHS roller to the centre of the RHS roller. (I am assuming that this measurement will be the same for both the front and rear crossbeams). If no rollers are fitted, then the distance between the point at which each hull rests from LHS to RHS.
Many thanks,
Peter