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Evolution of the boat trailer...
The wheel has turned a full circle...
Common use of the boat trailer is relatively new in the thousand's of years of boating history.
Generally speaking, the only people who owned private boats were those that lived on lakes or rivers.
The Birth of the Boat Trailer
The advances of WWII saw aluminium manufactured in commercially available sheet form and this led to an explosion in small private dinghy ownership.
The Boat Trailer was commercially born and became a necessity to allow owners to transport their boats.
The Multi Roller Trailer
The original boat trailers had Skids and boats were winched on to the trailer.
The commercial development of Fibre glass in the 1950s and 60s and improvements in injection moulding saw another stage of evolution where the Multi Roller Boat Trailer was born.
Roller Trailers Died
Roller Trailers were seen as the ultimate, but they came with a high price and every roller needs a bracket and anybody that has owned a roller trailer knows the risk of scraping their boat's hull on a roller bracket when things go wrong.
The evolution has almost turned a full circle to the point it would be near impossible to buy a Multi Roller Trailer in most countries today.
The Bunk Trailer
Today, with modern design, advancement in plastics, Spitfire offer the Bunk Trailer using HDPE bunks and HDPE cross member slides.
This High-density polyethylene - HDPE is known for its high strength-to-density ratio, is extremely slippery and offers the perfect cradle for a boat... be it fibre glass, wood or aluminium.
The bunk design allows you to drive your boat on and eliminates all risk of damage to your hull from striking roller brackets.
Perfection ... is a wonderful achievement.
HDPE bunks, unlike carpet bunks, will not cause osmosis to your hull.
Also, HDPE, unlike rigid aluminium bunks, will gently form to your hull shape eliminating hard pressure points.
DESIGNED FOR LIFE.... BUILT FOR LIFE.
Simple Axle Adjust for correct C of G Balance and ball weight.
Nuts shown, are in display models only... All trailers use 316 Stainless Nylock Nuts
Alloy Wheels
316 CNC Machined Stainless Steel Winch
Stainless Hydraulic Brake Cylinders
Certification by Independent Australian Vehicle Engineers
FOR YOUR PROTECTION, OUR PROTECTION AND THE SAFETY OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, ALL SPITFIRE TRAILER DESIGNS ARE CERTIFIED BY INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIAN VEHICLE ENGINEERS.
FURTHER ALL BRAKED BOAT TRAILERS ARE BUILT ON OUR INDEPENDENTLY CERTIFIED 3.5 TON CHASSIS.
THIS MEANS IF YOU PURCHASE A 1,120 KG TRAILER... A 1,500 KG OR A 2,000 KG TRAILER... THEY ARE ON A 3.5 TON CHASSIS.
THE ONLY DIFFERENCES ARE LIGHTER CAPACITY TYRES, WHEELS, AXLES AND COUPLING TO SUIT THE LIGHTER LOAD.
OUR OBJECTIVE AT SPITFIRE IS TO BUILD A TRAILER THAT WILL NOT BREAK, WILL NOT RUST AND BE COMPETITIVE IN PRICE WITH GALVANISED STEEL TRAILERS.
SPITFIRE Boat trailers... A TRAILER DESIGNED TO OUTLAST YOUR BOAT.