Trailer Thread - thread HiJack

[Mr. Sandman]

I saw it at the show but I have t be honest I did not inspect the connection that closely. I liked the rollers set up so much that was all I was looking at.

From a structural standpoint I like the T brace behind the Y connection. This will greatly stiffen that Y junction area and prevent almost all pivoting at that joint. That brace connection will make the Y joint more of a shear load at the intersection, not a moment (bending). (engineer) That said, a bracket (along with the T brace) like you mentioned would be even stronger. I noticed that loadrite did not have the T support, so the entire load is transfered thru that connection. It will see a large bedding and shear load. It is actually hard to judge from looking at the photos...I have to look in person: below are the 3 photos that I was considering:

One more thing, The last time I trailered a boat...it was a long time ago it was a 16' boston whaler...I think I was 16 or so, and I remember the trailer had a tilt pin that allowed the trailer to tilt into the water and allow easy on/off . I don't see that feature any more on trailers...