: OK, fourth time lucky ? Apparently box-beam (without the hyphen) is
: unacceptable...

: I bought a Guillemot part-stripped, on an internal (2x4 ply box-beam)
: strongback. I just wrapped it in plastic sheet, put it upside down on my
: normal sea kayak trailer, so that the strongback rested on the structure,
: and tied it down. Drove home c 70 miles, normal towing speeds (no more
: than 70 mph) on a mix of winding country lanes, hilly A-roads, motorway
: and exposed dual-carriageway across the pennines. No problem at all. Pity,
: I didn't think to take any photos of that.

Good idea on the gantry. Does anyone know what the overhang limit is in the states? I throw my 17' boat in the back of my 6' truck bed routinely...with tailgate open i have 9' of overhang.

: There's a picture of the trailer below (maybe it's as well the first post
: failed to appear, since two minutes later, I took the firewall down for
: maintenance and you wouldn't have been able to see the pic)-: It was just
: a cheap ex-navy canoe trailer bought very cheaply off ebay (it cost less
: than the part-stripped Guillemot, anyway). Needed a bit of TLC with a wire
: brush and Hammerite paint, then I built the lighting gantry aft so that
: long boats didn't overhang by a law-breaking amount (over 1 metre is agin
: the rules here in the UK). Went to Arctic Norway and back (1500 miles each
: way) with nine boats on, not loading the top deck (ferry much cheaper if
: you stay under 2 metre height limit and use the car deck). Every sea kayak
: owner needs a trailer, especially once you start building extra boats....

: Oh yes, the strongback/hull was strapped to the same layer as the
: strip-decked boat you can see in the pic.

: Andy