Color choice for my new Cobalt

[Snowman8]

Sounds like you got a great trailer. I guess it all depends on how much the trailer will get used. For me I put my boat in the water at the beginning of the season and it stays on the lift till the end of the season. The trailer during that time gets stored in a garage and the whole boat and trailer gets stored indoors in the winter. I drive about 2 miles to the closest boat ramp when launching.

Exactly, I drive 75-80 miles one way to go to the place that we like to boat. If I kept mine on a lift I would probably just have a storage trailer for winter.. I had a really nice looking EZ Loader that I nick named the Not So EZ Loader trailer for the first few years we had our R5. That thing was horrible to try to get the boat on straight and it was only built with 3700lb axels. I had our R5 on the scale with a half tank of gas and nothing else in it and I was 6800lbs. I don’t like running down the road as much as I do with the max load on a trailer. Something bad will eventually happen. Now I have a 12,000lb GVW trailer, I can basically haul an R5 with an R3 on top of the R5 and not be overloaded! Loadmaster wouldn’t spec my trailer with anything less than 6,000lb axels.

I think the key here is to stay clear of complete junk trailers that; 1) dont load well or 2) pull well because of improper tongue weight/axle location. Yes yours sounds like it could haul that boat to Alaska and back. Most people dont need that much over build, but if it is the same cost as a competitor I would be first in line for a Loadmaster. I didnt buy a Loadmaster because of the lack of a swing tongue, yes they have a removable tongue but that trailer is still longer than my Heritage.

I would also like to say my Heritage loads easy enough I could pull it on with a dock line. It also pulls very well too, now I have only made 3 longer trips; 3 to Okoboji (100m 1 way) and one trip to TRL (450m 1 way) but it is still head and tails above the trailer 25 year old trailer under our old 220. And I have no problem doing these trips again - although I would refrain from taking any boat to Alaska.

Heritage makes a nice trailer and I talked to them about making me a trailer for our R5 but after talking with Loadmaster I went with them because the Heritage was more expensive than the Loadmaster. When I asked Heritage about making a special build for me it got expensive.

[Sierra588]

Lots of color options with the Surf model and can be little over whelming. Search BoatTrader & you can see different color schemes to get better idea of how they look in real life.

My last boat had red hull and loved it cause didn't show waterlines, but decided to go with while hull this time around.

[Tuscany]

Exactly, I drive 75-80 miles one way to go to the place that we like to boat. If I kept mine on a lift I would probably just have a storage trailer for winter.. I had a really nice looking EZ Loader that I nick named the Not So EZ Loader trailer for the first few years we had our R5. That thing was horrible to try to get the boat on straight and it was only built with 3700lb axels. I had our R5 on the scale with a half tank of gas and nothing else in it and I was 6800lbs. I don’t like running down the road as much as I do with the max load on a trailer. Something bad will eventually happen. Now I have a 12,000lb GVW trailer, I can basically haul an R5 with an R3 on top of the R5 and not be overloaded! Loadmaster wouldn’t spec my trailer with anything less than 6,000lb axels.

I think the key here is to stay clear of complete junk trailers that; 1) dont load well or 2) pull well because of improper tongue weight/axle location. Yes yours sounds like it could haul that boat to Alaska and back. Most people dont need that much over build, but if it is the same cost as a competitor I would be first in line for a Loadmaster. I didnt buy a Loadmaster because of the lack of a swing tongue, yes they have a removable tongue but that trailer is still longer than my Heritage.

I would also like to say my Heritage loads easy enough I could pull it on with a dock line. It also pulls very well too, now I have only made 3 longer trips; 3 to Okoboji (100m 1 way) and one trip to TRL (450m 1 way) but it is still head and tails above the trailer 25 year old trailer under our old 220. And I have no problem doing these trips again - although I would refrain from taking any boat to Alaska.

Heritage makes a nice trailer and I talked to them about making me a trailer for our R5 but after talking with Loadmaster I went with them because the Heritage was more expensive than the Loadmaster. When I asked Heritage about making a special build for me it got expensive.

Loadmaster offers a swing tongue.
Since they are all one off custom, they will do anything and everything you want. Lighting, length, steps, suspension, EOH, what ever axles, winch, bow stops, whatever you want. Just add money.
My concern was that I didn’t want to get in the water while retrieving. I’m a boushey ho.. They suggested a 2’ longer than the normal trailer for the R7, with extended tongue.
Their bunks are the best part.
We can pull the boat out of the water and it could be off center. Within a mile, it settles perfect.

[JoelP]

We are happy with our colors.

[Krob1114]

We are happy with our colors.

Yes, nice. I'd be happy too.