DUAL SNEAKBOX TRAILER PLANS

Looking for some concepts and/or plans to give to a welder to fabricate an over/under dual 12' sneakbox trailer rig. I have written a number of trailer companies, but had no luck with them. I have seen a few on the road, so I know they are out there. Can anyone point me in the right direction or share their designs that worked?
 
Something like this?

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Marty K from KMT Boats makes the double decker trailers.
 
Why not a side by side trailer, a dual wave runner trailer works well. Jamie, Thanks for the idea. I looked at one locally, but was concerned that the boats would hang too far off of an already very wide rig. I guess it could be modified it so it would allow for the overlap at the trailer centerline. Have any pics or plans?
 
I have been thinking about the same thing for a while and plan to build one this summer.

Craig F- I like your idea it's pretty close to what I have been thinking about. Is it a two man operation to winch up the top rack? Do you need another set of bunks or something to extend outward to the water to get the boat up that steep angle?

Hank - Your trailer looks nice but how do you get the top boat off? I don't see how the top rack would allow you to winch the boat up or down?

The idea I had was to use another trailer frame and set it up so the rear of the top rack would drop down the the water similar to how Craig's trailer is set up but I was thinking about using one winch, set up with two cables on a pully system to raise and lower.
 
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John, I picked up this trailer a couple years ago, and passed it on as I decided I was not going to leave my scull boat at the ramp while I hunted and hope it would be there when I got back!

I did not build it, but it was a trailer on a trailer, the top rotated back and down to load the top boat. Unfortunatly I don't find any more pictures, but there maybe some in the archives on here somewhere.
 
Scott - I have a friend who built and used one until he decided that boosting the top one on was too much work. He got a used jet ski side by side trailer and has been very happy since he can float both boats on and it seems to tow better according to him.
sarge
 
Guys that's not my trailer, I can't take credit for it! That's Marty Kristiansen's rig. I believe he uses the electric winch on there somehow, but I haven't seen it done in person...

I was more taking the picture admiring the lines on the sneakbox, which was built by Marty's grandfather I believe in the 1940s, but Marty has been using the double decker style trailers for years. If Paul D. sees this he might be able to explain the process better than I.
 
If no pictures for a dual jetski trailer rig, maybe some has a link to a site that may?


How about a picture and a link?

From Steve Sutton's photo on our old 'Reader's Rigs' page:


http://www.duckboats.net/sutton1.htm

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Tandem trailer was customized to handle both boats by a local welding shop. The frame started out as a tandem jet ski trailer.




My guess would be it is extended, as you can see the back of the frame (tail light) at the stern of the one boat. Not sure if he extended the width as well. Although I'm fairly sure he sold the Classic BBSBs, last I knew he still had that trailer but used it for his Bud Miles and a MoMarsh that he used to carry decoys.

Chuck
 
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Got this in an email from our old pal Steve today regarding his trailer:

I do still have it......but you have more pictures of it than I do since those pictures were on the old computer which now sleeps with the nano-fishes.....

I extended just the front and that was to get the winch posts in front of each boat....did that without knowing that you could buy a part to do that with that bolts to the frame........oooppss....remember as well that I did mine before the "wave runner" craze....waves runners essentially being one man boats and not the smaller JET SKI's so trailers for them are more robust and better suited for two boats...

Quirks?.....well LEGALLY you can't exceed 102".....and most boats side by side will exceed that since you need a space between gunnels to prevent rubbing.......solution to that is to raise one set of bunks a few inches so that the gunnels overlapp.....most of the barnegats that people would want to run as duals also have ALOT of rocker and bunks are STRAIGHT so you end up with just a small portion of the boat on the bunk....makes it tough to tie down and doesn't provide alot of support to the hull especially at the stern where you want it for the transom....solution to that is to use a bracket fore and aft on the board so that it BOWS in the middle...then tie down the front and rear and the bunk, (as long as its not too heavy), will flex to fit the hull......

It's worked for me.......

Hope that helps...
 
Chuck... and Steve, Thanks so much for the pictures and advice. You got me looking at NJ trailer regs and we have a 96" max width. Most of the dual trailer specs I have looked up are 99" wide. I see plenty of jetskis on these in my area, I'm just not quite sure I want to invite a ticket every time I pull it.
 
Keep the ideas coming guys.
I need to build a tandem that has one on top of the other due to both boats having a beam of more than 5'.
 
Chuck... and Steve, Thanks so much for the pictures and advice. You got me looking at NJ trailer regs and we have a 96" max width. Most of the dual trailer specs I have looked up are 99" wide. I see plenty of jetskis on these in my area, I'm just not quite sure I want to invite a ticket every time I pull it.


From Steve "I've got more posts than any other lurker" Sutton :

Two things...FEDERAL allows 102" widths with wider than that for "safety and crushable" items...like winches that stick out past the 102" side rails on the big semi's......

NO WAY would boat people in NJ be selling trailers that were OVERWIDTH ....he needs to talk to the boat trailre people and get the accurate data from them......if that number is correct then I'm betting the width would be fender to fender and those are considered "safety AND crushable" and are exempt from the width.....

The man knows trailers, I'd seek out some more info it you really interested in going side by side.
 
Hank, Is that upper rack just bolted on?

Scott - I am 90% sure yes, but it may be welded and bolted. I can't remember and I am not at the house.

Here is a link showing how the top boat comes off. It's not perfect but I have never had a time when we couldn't launch the upper boat fairly easily. If the trailer had a hinge it would be even easier. I like the "bunk-bed" set up as it takes up much less space in the garage.

http://www.duckboats.net/...gi?post=46776;#46776
 
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