Re: trailer
Well, of course boats that size get towed around all the time, and I've very happy that I'm not the one towing them. It wouldn't be bad for just a couple of miles on a route well scouted out beforehand, but long distances, in traffic, on unknown roads.<br /><br />Anyway, what I wanted to say that while the legal limit on width is 8 feet in some states and 8.5 in others that there really isn't any towing limit on height. That, however doesn't mean that its not a much more serious problem. You could tow a 9' boat from one end of this country to the other and never get stopped, but that 13' 6" is a minimum clearance for bridges, tunnels, traffic signals, and overhead highway signs that have been funded in any part by Federal funds (which means virtually all of them). So you can tow a 9 foot-wide through a state with an 8'6" width limit but you aren't going to tow a 13'8" boat through a 13'6" tunnel no matter what.<br /><br />There is another thing too. I drive a F250 with the Power Stroke Diesel. I'm not saying its the most powerful, or the least, but that its about like each of the others. My boat fully loaded with fuel, gear, ice, bait, the whole 9 yards, on the trailer backing down the ramp weighs just over 8,000 pounds. You would have to be twice that weight. I would not want to be towing anything much heavier than what I am already, and certainly not twice that amount. I know there are guys who do it, but it would make me feel very uncomfortable.<br /><br />Thom