30ft+/ Oversized load Trailering. Lets see your tow rigs.

Hugespat57

I wish it was like that around here. I don't see what the hurry is all about when your going to launch just to park in your slip. I guess if your a big guide, your 28' guide boat that cost you $200k plus is so much more important than some guy with his 80 year old father in an old 20' boat. Some day he will be in a hurry and it will cost him more than his time. Karma has a way like that. I did want to see if I could load his pick up on the roller trailer to keep him from running. But I let him go to let other forces do their work. I do have to say though. Seeing my father tell him he was #1 in his book was pretty funny. This all took place in Garibaldi Oregon.

We drove down to Newport, the next launch south to us and folks there were stopping and helping each other where they could. Seen a guy pull his 34' SR out to replace bellows and lower shift cables and folks came out of the woodwork and pulled both drives and were cleaning the crap for him. It was pretty refreshing. I checked on a slip there but at $800 a month and the need for over 1 mill of insurance, I'll keep her on the trailer and pull back and forth.

John
 
This leads to an interesting question for everyone...
Why do you tow your 30ft+/Oversized boat?

Me,
1. Slips are expensive
2. Uncomfortable leaving my boat unattended for a week or two at a time. (afraid of fire/flooding/vandals/theft)
3. At home for convenience of maintenance and repair, can tinker any evening.
4. Former heavy equipment mechanic so I can back a tractor and a 53ft trailer around a blind corner into a truck bay. (so no fear of towing a big rig)
5. Lake locked, lake is nice but like to go to coast from time to time and family in South Florida where we spent 17 years diving the keys etc.
 
I will tow it because;
Slips are crazy expensive
Security, slips aren't secure and don't want just anybody able to board or move in when away
Heavy Equipment operator that hauled equipment in the PNW and the Permian Basin Oil Fields
Would rather to work on things at home where I have tools and a bathroom not locked up due to Brown's laws
Never know where we will want to use it when we use it, coast, rivers lakes.

But the biggest is the homeless. If they move in they can claim squater's rights and never leave. Seen it too many times around here with houses RV's and folks barns.

John
 
I will tow it because:
1. In charge of my own destiny. I haul, I launch, I store and I do repairs in the comfort of my own yard and garage. No extra charges, rules, schedules or inconveniences.;)
2. The wife, kids and I love to travel to different locations and ports around Michigan. We are truly blessed with some of the most unique and beautiful ports in the country and they are a relatively short trailering trip from each other.
3. Fishing! We can be trolling for walleyes in the Saginaw Bay in the morning and trolling for salmon in Lake Michigan by evening! Maybe this should be reason #1...LOL
 
We never know where we're going next! It might be the Columbia near Oregon, it might be 30 miles fro here, might be the Snake River, Priest Lake or Lake Pend Oreille in Northern Idaho, the San Juan Islands, Spokane River or some other destination that bites on Thursday night. I also keep mine inside a large RV barn where I can work on it year round. I don't have to winterize it and can load it the night before so I just hitch and go in the AM. It's under MY control and I don't have to worry about it while I'm away. I like going to different places and if I had to deal with dock neighbors and the same destination EVERY weekend, I'd get bored really fast! I can be on the ocean, in Idaho or even in Oregon in an hour to 4 hours, so I have MANY places to go. Did I mention Lake Chelan, Lake Couer D'Alene or Lake Roosevelt? Someday I'll get a permit to tow in Oregon and check out their lakes too!
 
Anyone with an 09ish model 310DA have an accurate LOA with trailer included? Trying to figure minimum pole barn dimension for next boat.
 
Anyone with an 09ish model 310DA have an accurate LOA with trailer included? Trying to figure minimum pole barn dimension for next boat.
I had a 2009 310 Sundancer. I had a 40’ long (outside dim) garage built for it. Clear length of 38’ 9” inside. Boat was parked 2’ from back wall (for a fixed boarding staircase) and had sufficient clearance in front. My trailer was a purposely short-tongue design but fit with approx 1’ in front.

In general, the boat will fit easily in 40’. It’s your trailer design that will actually dictate the building length required. And trailers of this size can vary significantly in overall length.
 
I have an 07 in my back yard if you need more measurements, but I think Stephenm27 might have given you what you need. My boat is appx 14'2" tall not including the Glomax TV antenna, so unless you're going to hinge the arch, take that into consideration as well.
 
I have an 07 in my back yard if you need more measurements, but I think Stephenm27 might have given you what you need. My boat is appx 14'2" tall not including the Glomax TV antenna, so unless you're going to hinge the arch, take that into consideration as well.

Good point...

I neglected to say that we had a hinged arch that enabled ours to fit through a 14’ door. Without lowering the arch, height was also right around 14’ 3” (glomex only, no radar), even with a low clearance trailer (keel was 13” from asphalt).
 
Hitched up in Coeur d' Alene at the seller's yard, then drove north the 22 miles to my buddy's place where she's spending the winter. I was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly it towed. This was with a 2016 3500 Ram 6.7 diesel 4X4 SRW with a class V hitch. Notice that the truck itself is well over 20 feet long, as it's a full 8' bed four-door model. I think the extra length of the tow vehicle helps to avoid the dreaded "tail wagging the dog" syndrome. I had them, but, in my excitement of the whole new boat thing, I forgot to attach the Wide Load banners I'd bought just for this. Nobody important noticed...
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Anyone with an 09ish model 310DA have an accurate LOA with trailer included? Trying to figure minimum pole barn dimension for next boat.

Another thing to take into consideration. If you put a roll up door on the building, Your eave height needs to be two feet higher. And do yourself a favor. Have the builder use engineered OSB on the roof. It ties everything together and will stop the sway from wind and weather. At 14' eaves I see as much as 2" of sway in a 50knt wind. This will warble out the holes around the screw and cause leaks in as short as five years. Unless you go with standing seam roofing. And make sure they use the synthetic felt under the metal. If you need help, let me know. I sell and build pole buildings for a living. If I was closer, I'd put it together for you and get you about a $10k break on materials.
 
Hitched up in Coeur d' Alene at the seller's yard, then drove north the 22 miles to my buddy's place where she's spending the winter. I was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly it towed. This was with a 2016 3500 Ram 6.7 diesel 4X4 SRW with a class V hitch. Notice that the truck itself is well over 20 feet long, as it's a full 8' bed four-door model. I think the extra length of the tow vehicle helps to avoid the dreaded "tail wagging the dog" syndrome. I had them, but, in my excitement of the whole new boat thing, I forgot to attach the Wide Load banners I'd bought just for this. Nobody important noticed...
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My trailer is a little longer than yours. I need to get those side bunks put on mine. I'm not liking the guessing game of being on the trailer or off to one side. How tall is yours to the top of the radar arch? I need to measure mine and see if I can swing a radar if I can find one. The Lowrance 4G is next to impossible around here.

As for the sway, I was told I will need airbags on my DRW Chebby
 
My 300 is 12ft off the ground
But rather than get into a folding arch I fabricated all the antennas to fold. Left and right mounts for antennas and center plate for radar and s couple shorties
 
My 300 is 12ft off the ground
But rather than get into a folding arch I fabricated all the antennas to fold. Left and right mounts for antennas and center plate for radar and s couple shorties
Patrick, I seen that. But with the full camper canvas it won't fold all the way down. I was thinking of a plate that would mount to the bottom of the arch with plugs for the radar. So it would be sort of like the clearance light on the front of the windshield. Slide in the mount and plug the wires together and be off. But I was told you can't cut the wires and put in a plug. So I'm looking at other options for roading the boat with radar.
 
What make and model radar?
The Garmins are just a Ethernet cable and a 12 volt power cable.

All my antennas have connector just i side the arch. The long runs all low loss marine ultraflex lmr400.
The exposed sections can all be easily replaced if the weather gets to them
Same with two Ethernet cables, one for the Garmin and one for a Grove WiFi AP
 
I would need a Lowrance G4. Or get rid of the 5 year old HDS12 and spend a bunch more money. Wife already thinks I spend too much on a boat we have yet to put in the water since bringing it home. I keep telling her it's either a boat or I'm buying an air plane.
 
To much money on the boat!!

ROFLMAO
 
I keep telling her the boxes of boat parts are her Christmas presents. "From West Marine?" "Oh baby, those are just boxes they had on hand". I really don't think she is buying that.
 

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