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PAX, I am sorry for your pain.
After reading what you are going thru I am thankful that I have my trailer. Yes, I paid more than a standard trailer, but it is all aluminum, including the axle. It is lower which helps with launching and retrieve, and I spray the brakes with Salt Away after launch, after retrieve, and after flushing the motor at home. We also add a squirt or two of grease to each wheel after every use and pump new grease into each wheel every spring (takes almost a tube per wheel and we only use Amsoil marine grease).
We hope that our efforts will help keep trouble away longer. Our goal when we purchased our trailer was to have a trailer that would last as long as the boat, and based on the 20 and 30 something year old trailers from the same manufacturer that are still in use, we just might do it.
If you are not going to do the work yourself, then I would vote for a new trailer. Please shop around and get the best you can afford. Buying a new trailer every five or so years does not make economic sense to me.
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Vic in Osprey FL
2005 Triumph 210 CC with a collapsible radar arch on a Rolls Axle trailer
Boat Name: Irresistible
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