Trailers
How to get a boat home the day you buy it
The money has changed hands and there are forty miles between you and your driveway. Weights, hitch match, chains, lights, how the load sits and the stop twenty minutes out.
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The half of the purchase nobody inspects. Bearings, tire age, lights, frames and the second title.
Buyers negotiate over the engine and inherit the trailer. It is the cheaper object and the one nobody photographs, and it is also the one carrying the boat at seventy miles an hour on the way home.
Two separate jobs get filed here. One is condition, worked out standing in the seller's driveway: bearings, tire age, lights, frame welds and what each finding is worth at the negotiation. The other is the tow itself, which turns on weights, the coupler, the chains and the plug, and has almost nothing in common with the first.
In most states the trailer carries its own title too. That is the usual reason somebody drives away holding paperwork for one object and possession of two.
