I am thinking of purchasing a 18 ft red jacket trailer sailer from southern Tasmania and transporting it to northern tasmania. The issue is the red jacket is located in the water and doesnt come with a trailer. How would I transport it given the red witch has a unique style of trailer due to its small fixed keel (it is like a trailer sailer/fixed keel hybrid).
I have thought of possible making a cheap timber frame for it at location and transporting on a car trailer. Would this work or does anyone have any suggestions
pallets use them like building blocks front and back and use the truck ratchets and straps the 2.5tonne ones to hold down the pallets and then the boat make sure you have some pulling the boat in different directions to hold it steady. Local businesses will be more then happy to give away the cheap pine pallets.
If there is one yacht of that design in the state I'm sure there might be more...
Ask at the local YC put feelers out and see if you can borrow a trailer that will fit for a couple of days, Ask the owner, slip him $100 He's happy, your happy, minimal effort, less cost, less hassle than building a cradle or trailer. easy 
Thanks for the replies guys. This is the only one I have seen over here. I think I will go with prefabing three pieces of timber to fit on the car trailer tray butted up against the small side walls of the trailer. I will have these approx 30 cm apart to sit under the keel sole. Six vertical pieces extending up both sides. When yacht is in position bolt in six pieces on top of the three horizontal pieces, butted up against the keel to prevent it from slipping out sideways. Lastly three pieces bolted above the yacht connecting the vertical pieces. Then using truck ratchets over the yacht to keep it down.
My red jacket has a short stubby keel with a flat bottom and it sits on the keel on the trailer. The boat is secured at the front with a rope through the eyebolt and there is a single post on each side of the boat stopping it rolling off the trailer. I also use some tie-downs to keep the boat firmly attached to the trailer but my point is that all the weight is on the keel, the rest is just there to hold the boat upright. Hope this helps with your problem.
