Quote Originally Posted by haugy View Post
Yeah, the tower is New Dimensions.

Wotan don't wait on that trailer man. While they seem insignificant most of the time, they make life easy or miserable depending on how they are.
I think I over-reacted..... All I knew was that on Sunday I noticed that one of the bunks was floating on one end when I was pulling on to the trailer. I assumed that all of the boards were shot.

After taking the night last night to give it a once over, I found that the bunks were all in GREAT condition (except for one.... which I'll deal with.) The carpet was in OK condition. The bolts holding everything together, though? Horrible. The previous owner (or me... can't remember!) only used (1) zinc plated lag bolt per bunk bracket. My bunks sit flat on the trailer, not turned up like yours. Each bunk is 9' and has 4 brackets attaching it to the trailer. Each bunk bracket has 2 bolt holes. Only using 1 bolt in each bracket is just a bad, bad idea.

So... One of the bunks had too many bolts fall out and finally decided to give up. The bunk itself is still solid and in good condition, but it moved over and wasn't supporting the boat anymore. This caused the other bunk on that side to break in half. It was still supporting the boat, was still solid wood, but was broken.

So... last night (with a heat index of 115 degrees) I let my parents take my boat for a cruise and did an emergency repair. I bought all new wood and carpet, all new SS lag bolts and hardware and started on replacing the broken one. I only had time to finish that one and make sure all of the rest had good bolts in them. In the next couple of weeks I'm going to slowly swap out the rest of them (but only really so that the carpet will match.)

I also took the time to pull the broken brake line so that I can start working on taking care of that. I also measured for new leaf springs (all my tires are ONLY worn on the inside.) Am I right to think that replacing the leaf springs will take care of that problem?