I have to accept that the season is practically over and although my boat project is almost seaworthy, it will be spring when she sees the water. So this winter, I´m going to finish her off really well and I´m going to put on a modified Bimini top (like Mark 42´s) except in England, it will probably be used more to fend off wind and rain, so I´m going with stainless tubing.<br /><br />I´m also going to overhaul my trailer - install rollers and add some extra steel reinforcement.<br />My trailer is mostly made of 80x40mm and 40x40mm mild steel hollow profiles. Combating visible rust on the outside is easy enough - traditional wirebrush & sand, prime and paint, but it seems like most of my stuff rusts from inside out, whether it´s cars, motorcycle frames and exhaust pipes. So why not fill the hollow sections with engine oil? Of course the frame must be completely liquid tight but that´s easy enough to make sure of when I weld it up. Then I can just drill a 10mm hole in each section, tap the hole and install a bolt with an O-ring. No more invisible rust worries. I do my own oil changes, so I will save at least one trip to the community dump with the old oil. Whatdoyouthink ?? Bunk or brilliance?
<br /><br />There comes a time in a boat trailer's life when, just like automobiles, it's time for that great scrap heap in the sky. 
