Trailer Options for Nautiques

[GCN-01]

Hey Guys,

I am just throwing some ideas around in my head at the moment & some input would be great...

We currently import all of our Nautiques on cradles & just have them fitted up to a locally made trailer. The trailers dress up nicely once you put some rims on them but would like to explore some options of using some of the nice trailers we see over in the US...

Our requirements to be legal here are:

Breakaway brakes - must be able to be overidden from the cabin ie electric brakes or electric over hydraulic

Max width 2.5m wide

Galvanised frame with either painting or powder coat options

One of our customers is also having a custom made Polished Stainless trailer made for his 220 & I reckon that would be unreal, so maybe some options in stainless as well...

Any companies you recommend would be helpful... links to their websites would also be great. Boatmate are out as they already have an importer here and are just to expensive here, so others would be good

Cheers

Steve

[Rangertrace]

Dorsey makes a really nice, well built trailer. You can get them pretty "plain jane" or loaded. Check out trailersbydorsey.com

[H2O]

Many of the western (USA) Nautiques ride on DHM trailers since they are a California manufacturer. Very nice trailer. See them at dhmtrailers.com.

[skiswm]

I'd 2nd the DHM or also some have Zieman Trailers on them, I have one for my PWC and love it. http://zieman.com/

[Rick]

I second the DHM. Swing tongues hydraulic brakes with a reverse switch for brakeoveride. Excellent service.

[MNSuperAir]

Dorsey here and I like it. I would recommend the swing tongue instead of the pull out.

[coloradonautique]

We liked the Ramlin on the '90 SN CB. Simple and solid although I would not get the wooden bunk steps again. They eventually rot and also seem to rust the frame faster.

Here is a fourth vote for DHM. We have an '01 DHM under our Air Nautique. It is decked out with most of the newer features (channel frame, disc brakes, pull out swing tongue, backup lockout, tilt crash pads, tandem mag wheels, diamond tread steps).

We are very happy with the new trailerl. We have a steep ramp and sometimes struggle to get the boat on cleanly (same problem with most flat ski boats trailers on steep ramps) but otherwise it is a great trailer.

[AbunDiga909]

I'd recommend Ramlin. For the most part, DHM serves most of the west coast Nautiques and Ramlin for the east coast. I've never seen a DHM trailer in person, and I'm sure they make great trailers--Ive heard nothing but good things about them. However, I have experienced 1st hand many great things about the ramlin trailers and their people down in Orlando... down the street from the factory...

I have seen the Eagles and Prestiges, they're also somewhat popular on the east coast. I do not like the Eagles b/c the nautiques sit very high on them--seems unnecessarily top-heavy. For the Prestiges, I just know that a lot of the dealers primarily order their on speck nautiques with Eagles or Ramlins, so that should say something.