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.

[77SceptreOB]

I had the same problem on my old Wesco trailer. Except in my case only one side of the trailer floated. That makes it a real PITA to load/drive the boat on the trailer. I felt this condition was partially my fault due to the fact I changed out the galvanized steel wheels (on both sides) to aluminum wheels. That difference in weight was all it took to create the floating condition. I wrapped some galvanized anchor chain around the frame of the trailer in the back on the floating side and that solved the problem