Thread: Tinnie Transport

Originally Posted by foz.in.oz

Something I have seen but unfortunately don't have photos of is a boat trailer with a removable camper on top of it. When you get to camp you drop the legs on the camper part, jack it up and pull the boat trailer out from underneath. Camper stays put and boat goes a launchin'

Pain in the bum if you want to go to the mountains...

Belco Custom Trailers

Hi All, we usually carry our dinghy on the roof [110, td5] with a full length rack, helped with 4x2 pine-timber across back and front to take the dinghy's extra width. Gravity helps in getting it off the roof. While the missus and I use a light block and tackle to haul it onto the roof. We plan to fit a rack on the CT with gas struts / hinges enabling overnight stops without lifting the dinghy off. We like the option of reloading the dinghy onto the roof if we want to go exploring further afield hence we'll continue to use both methods. Hope this helps

Your tinnie looks like a Stacer 3.7
they fit good on a disco1.

If it were me, like Remy I would set it up for both situations.

Sell your stepped rack - should get okay money for it and modifying it will be as time consuming as making one from scratch.

Make a flat rack with no side rails to keep height down, incorprate small stoppers for gunwhale width at the front, have the rear bar (with teflon rub strip) 1500 wide (just wider than widest part of tinnie). (I have made one for the exact tinnie onto a disco1 - 50x25x1.8mm rails mesh flooring, gal dipped)

Make simple rack for CT... now you have the best of both. For the long road legs put the tinnie up on CT for drag etc etc. When you get to places where you are camping/ fishing the tinnie goes up on roof with gear in back.
Two people can easily heave that size tinnie onto a disco, I can do it solo if need be, but if not just put plasma rope on your winch and then winch it up, there is so little load it wont bugger up the bullbar or roof line and saves carrying more junk.

Roof topping allows you to get into the tight lagoon country and salt flat creeks, CT topping to do the miles.

Steve

A HSE P38a and you thought you had weight problems but i reckon it will be ok if one drives sensible. As i said i am going to do both just to give me the option. Trailer nearly done just waiting for someone else to weld my roof rack up - want it done better than my skills allow.

Originally Posted by awabbit6

I hadn't thought of doing both. Saves making a folding trailer!

What car are you putting yours on?