just curious

If you are, what trailer did you get and how does it work with the canoe?

thankee  

Avid, I use a trailer for my Gheenoe. The boat is just the basic 15 1/2 ft. model and weighs about 100 lbs. I used to put it on my back and load it on top of my p.u. topper. Now that I have a trailer that was designed for the Gheenoe I can leave my swivel seats on and store my battery cables etc. under the center seat. I spray silicon on the carpet bunks of the trailer and the boat slides off and on very easily. I never  get the wheel rims wet and stop when the tires touch the water. As far as towing it I don't even know it's there except when turning a tight corner.

Take a ride up to Meltra's in Fort Pierce. On US 1.

A friend of mine used to throw his canoe in the back of his pickup, but he got rid of the truck when he remarried. He had no good way to transport the canoe and his wife bought him a trailer as a birthday present. I don't know what kind, but she bought it at a canoe store, so it's made for that type of boat. As to how it works, it works. Put the boat on the trailer, secure it and it does what it's supposed to. He doesn't back it into the water like would be done with most boats.

A small jon boat trailer, with an extended tongue on one end, and extended bunks on the other will do just dandy.  Or, if you don't have a battery, or heavy TM back there, you don't need to extend the bunks that much.  The way I would set on up, not knowing what the bottom contour of your canoe is, bunks in the middle, and possibly back, and a set or two of rollers, in a vee formation, to conform to the bottom of the hull, on the front.  But a bow eye on the canoe, and use a regular ole' winch, and winch post.  Definitely get, or make some guide ons, tight to the hull, as this will help not only loading it, but driving it to the top of the ramp, as the canoe may have the tendency to want to bounce off the side, since no transom strap.  

The trailer axle would need to be just aft of the center of the boat, unless the motor/battery is back there.  A single strap over the gunwales, at the back of the trailer frame, along with the winch strap will do ya fine.  Good luck!!