Trailer/boat winter care

  • mnfish
    Lake Elmo MN
    Posts: 1106
    February 4, 2005 at 7:47 pm #1245592

    For those of you who “Fish The River” in the winter…how do you keep rust from forming on your trailer and boat? It’s one of the reasons I don’t bring my boat out in the winter. It gets all that salt/road grime slop on it from driving there and back. Thanx

    mnfish
    Lake Elmo MN
    Posts: 1106
    February 8, 2005 at 9:23 pm #341786

    anybody? What do you do?

    amwatson
    Holmen,WI
    Posts: 5130
    February 8, 2005 at 9:27 pm #341788

    Since my boat/trailer isn’t a high dollar outfit, I never pay any attention to the grime it gets. Seems like it is usually pretty clean and I have never had a trailer fall to pieces yet from rust. Usually the grime gets washed off every time I put the boat in the water. I do however wish I had a travel cover to protect the inside though.

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    February 8, 2005 at 9:27 pm #341789

    As soon as I have the time, I’m going to paint the entire trailer with bedliner. The road salt does reak havok on the trailer. My next winter beater will have a galvanized trailer!

    -J.

    mnfish
    Lake Elmo MN
    Posts: 1106
    February 9, 2005 at 1:49 am #341846

    Jon, Maybe you hit the nail on the head? Have 2 trailers. One for the winter and one for the summer. Kind of like getting a winter beater! I’d like to have my trailer Rhino lined, too. Very expensive, though. The new Ranger trailers are road armored. Maybe the next boat I get will have the trailer lined.

    amwatson
    Holmen,WI
    Posts: 5130
    February 9, 2005 at 2:11 am #341850

    You can buy the Rhino lining stuff at Farm& Fleet and put it on yourself for less money. That stuff is awesome

    Jami Ritter
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 3068
    February 9, 2005 at 1:20 pm #341907

    I try to stay on top of the rust spots on the trailer in the summer. Sand it, prime it, and re shoot with gloss white. Seems to do the trick. If the trailer gets really bad, I’ll spray it off at a car wash, and let it dry at the in-laws heated work shop.

    DeeZee
    Champlin, Mn
    Posts: 2128
    February 9, 2005 at 3:13 pm #341936

    mnfish,

    I have the same problem with my Ranger trailer. Thats why I have a jon boat for this time of year…..
    As for the care my trailer sees, a high pressure car wash as soon as applicable to get the majority of the salt and grime off. Picking the nice “clean road” days to fish are obviously something I care not to do. Car wash for me.

    john23
    St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 2586
    February 9, 2005 at 4:23 pm #341953

    I recently re-painted the trailer on my big boat. What a pain in the butt! I wouldn’t recommend that project to anyone. However, I did put bedliner on all the cross beams and roller hardware. That seems like the ticket. It has only been on for a year, but it sure looks like it will hold up. My winter boat trailer will get the same treatment when I have time.

    John

    Steve Plantz
    SE MN
    Posts: 12241
    February 9, 2005 at 4:37 pm #341955

    My next trailer will defiantly be galvanized.

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