Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

Mine is hanging on the lift and i'd really like to get it out to do some much needed maintenance/upkeep on the toons that can't really do on the lift.

There's no real availability for used pontoon trailers in my area on the southern Chesapeake Bay and I don't really want to buy one new for my old 21' Sun Tracker PB, so I've been trying to think out of the box about converting an old galvanized standard boat trailer (not yet purchased) to pull mine in/out of the water to do maintenance on. Gotta ramp next to my house so it doesn't have to be able to travel really unless I needed to take it to the shop for some welding or other work I'm not setup to do.

Anybody do this before or know where to find pics of some homemade conversions?

I understand one of the problems would be tire size and trailer width of a standard trailer besides mounting hardware?

Honestly, mine looks like a regular boat trailer with five 2" square tube braces run right on top of it. I know mine isn't a custom, but the principle is the same.
I found these pics:

GoFastr wrote:Mine is hanging on the lift and i'd really like to get it out to do some much needed maintenance/upkeep on the toons that can't really do on the lift.

There's no real availability for used pontoon trailers in my area on the southern Chesapeake Bay and I don't really want to buy one new for my old 21' Sun Tracker PB, so I've been trying to think out of the box about converting an old galvanized standard boat trailer (not yet purchased) to pull mine in/out of the water to do maintenance on. Gotta ramp next to my house so it doesn't have to be able to travel really unless I needed to take it to the shop for some welding or other work I'm not setup to do.

Anybody do this before or know where to find pics of some homemade conversions?

I understand one of the problems would be tire size and trailer width of a standard trailer besides mounting hardware?

Can you rent one from a marine far a hour or two to get done what you want?

Trailer conversion is certainly possible, but the new trailer might be a little high off the ground.

If you're needing to do some repairs, see if there's a local dealer selling pontoons that will rent a trailer to you.

All of our local dealers keep a used pontoon trailer around because relatively few pontoon buyers ever buy a trailer. Most pontoons are kept in boathouses out of the water.

Hmm interesting pics on the trailer configuration. Are those cross bars welded on or bolted? Are you using normal or regular trailer tires, or did you down size them? Guess I would need to figure out the winch setup as well.

Yeah the only dealer nearby without a cross state drive who might have is the Bass Pro shop. I'll call them I guess and see what if anything is possible with them. But long term I'd like the flexibility of my own platform to cut down on the logistics and time constraints of getting a loaner back.

To me I wont own any sort of a boat with out a trailer, but I do my own work and its just easier to bring it home to do stuff, mine is on a wet slip.

MH Hawker wrote:To me I wont own any sort of a boat with out a trailer, but I do my own work and its just easier to bring it home to do stuff, mine is on a wet slip.

I'm of the same mind if you own a boat you need a trailer unless the boat is to big to trailer. I never understood people buying a boat and forgetting the trailer.

I had a neighbor that bought a 24ft toon and no trailer the first time they lowered the lake his boat was sitting on the bottom stuck in mud. After two years the interior was shot the boat was not worth scrap to anyone else.

I converted this POS to fit my boat. I don't have any final pictures, but all in all it turned out well. It was more work than I had originally thought it would be.

Mine are welded one, I suspect you could also bolt them on as well. Again, mine is not customer, it was built for a toon from inception, they used 12" wheels for it.