20 WATERLINE
DECEMBER 2012
Thinking of easy summer boat launching
With the days beginning to grow longer it is time take the boat trailer to Peter Anderson at Greerton engineering. Greerton engineering are able to fix just about anything. They are spring specialists and are able to repair boat trailers for the summer, and also any other engineering work that needs doing. “It’s coming up towards spring, people need to start thinking about repairing the trailer and making it road legal. They will go and get their spring warrant and they will need to get
things fixed – or they are not thinking about it, and it will be a Christmas warrant.” Christmas warrants are for the people who discover when they are about to go on holiday that the boat trailer hasn’t a warrant, says Peter. Greerton Engineering is also the home of the SEEL Trailer Boat Launcher, a device that extends the life of any boat trailer simply by keeping the wheels out of the water. It is a hinged sliding frame that fits onto the rear of most trailer frames and allows boats to be launched without getting trailer wheels or even feet wet – and increases the range of places boat owners can launch from.
Apart from offering the luxury of winter launching without anyone having to get wet, the slide-out extension’s other big advantage is it makes many ‘off road’ launching sites available. River banks, lake shores, ramps with dropoffs under water, steep ramps, and launching at the beach will all be easier with a SEEL Trailer boat launcher. “The trailer wheels can be kept out of the water, which is better for the bearings and springs as well as the trailer.” www.trailerboatlauncher.co.nz or www. springworks.co.nz for pictures and video of the SEEL in action.
before - on a lean after setting rear springs
trailer boat launcher