Hitch-hiker/Float-On floating style trailers

[erebus]

Originally Posted by Beaver

There is a good thread on Hulltruth talking about this issue. One guy replaced his wooden bunks with aluminum and said it never floated again. He said the wood bunks create 300 to 400lbs of lift. Another guy said he filled a 2” pvc pipe with concrete and clamped it to his trailer with hose clamps.

Good luck.

Ah, I assumed it was the tires, but the bunks making too much lift makes much more sense.
They are pretty big wooden bunks.
It is a very light trailer. I can horse it around (with no boat on it) pretty easily.

PVC with concrete seems pretty low tech.