Roughly what's a new trailer cost

[Crunchy]

There's one not too far away so I'll do that....

[ranmar850]

[QUOTEJust sayin - it only takes a short time to get across a weigh bridge and then you'll know for sure. As opposed to theoretically][/QUOTE] As Moonlighter said, theorize all you want, but weighbridges don't lie. I'm a believer since I ran my old Quintrex 600 Navigator over one. 6 metre pressed hull, ply deck, alloy console with a little alloy hardtop. 90HP Yamaha 2-stroke. It had 200 metres of 12 mm rope, two anchors and chains plus 100 litres of fuel in the 170 litre tank, no eskies or any other fishing gear. I guessed maybe 1250Kg, trailer was tandem on 1500Kg springs. It went 1500Kg even. So when I loaded it up for our annual pilgrimage north, it would have been well over 2 tonnes.And it had 50-odd k's of hideous station track at the end of 700 k's of bitumen to do. A lot of the weight was in the trailer,, probably, as I had built it myself to handle the rough stuff, really should have had 2 tonne springs under it in retrospect. Dealers are always trying to put the cheapest package together when selling new, and most of them WILL skimp on the trailer. My current boat, A Swiftcraft Dominator (5,65m)on a fully rollered tandem Roadmaster, weighs 1550 with no fuel aboard. It came on a single axle trailer rated for 1200KG--luckily it was in excellent condition, and the manufacturer supplied bolt-on parts to convert to a tandem, and re-issue a compliance plate. It still cost me about $1600 to convert it, and ended up with a rating of 1800kg, which still doesn't give me much margin.