The trailer for my Lowe 1448T

I looked around for a used trailer once I had ordered the boat. With this being a wider than usual boat for this length, most of the trailers seemed a bit narrow to me, being 48″ between the fenders. My boat is 48″ wide at the bottom, so if I wanted the boat to sit low on the trailer to make getting it in the water easier, the fenders would probably interfere.

I found a wider trailer, 60″ between the fenders, which seemed like a nice fit, and it was in decent shape, so I bought it. It was made for a V-hull, and was setup with tilting rollers in the back, and also has the tilt option in the middle of the trailer to tip the whole thing up if required. I originally planned on keeping the tilt roller bars in the back, and simply convert them to bunks, but the guy at the boat store suggested it would be overkill, just get the bunks as low to the trailer as possible and it would be plenty easy to load and unload that way. The axle can be adjusted forward and backward, and there are ‘walking planks’ built in to make loading and unloading easier as well.

I didn’t think to take any pictures when I got the trailer home, so I don’t have any of the unmodified trailer, but here are some after I started removing unnecessary items, like the rollers. I wire-wheeled some of areas on the trailer that didn’t look so good, then primed with Rustoleum primer, and finished with Gloss Black Rustoleum. This helped it look better, and will hopefully help keep it rust free for a while.