Originally Posted By: MostlyHarmless
A canoe trailer is a great invention - carrying a heavy caonoe for 200 meters isn't fun.

With a trailer, you can also stack most of your luggage in the canoe, so you don't have to do multiple trips for loading and unloading. The trailer can (usually) be packed reasonably flat and just come along on the trip without much trouble.

I'm interested in a DYI canoe trailer project myself. I'm targeting bigger wheels than shown here, though - big wheels run much easier over roots and rocks.

My goal is to be able to hitch my canoe+trailer it to my bike. No, I'm not kidding: There are lots of really nice waterways where the obvious canoe landing sites has a very nice dirt road all the way down to the water - but that road is blocked for cars. Being able to park at the gate and wheel or bike all my gear plus canoe from there down to the water vastly expands my options.


I am actually blessed with multiple public ramps that allows us to bring a boat inches from the water line. The canoe will not be a problem because we will bring the car right at the end of the ramp and then demount it. We do not have a trailer hitch on the car, its about 1,500 euros nearly 2000 US and I aint gonna spend this now cuz huby will be giving us this car in two years so it makes no sense to invest in a hitch now. next car, for sure we will get a hitch cuz then we dont have the hassles with deflating and inflating.

I actually just got back from DIY store nd bought a plant of nice wood about 140cm long and 20cm deep and 2cm thick, with that I will cut it in two and and scred it together, then I got some strange but dang strong wheels mounted with metal brackets which I must screw on to the boards and they will remain solid and two little hooks I will put on the sides of the board and that will be the harness connectors. When it is finished I will show you guys. That is WHEN or if we have to pull it say about 25 meters from the water