.....replacing trailer wood bunks?

[fatlazyless]

Ok.....I bought a Yacht Club trailer, made in 2004, from a neighbor last October, for $240; a trailer with two six foot long padded bunks designed to hold a personal water craft like a Sea Doo.

I plan to use it with a 16' sailboat that weighs about 150-lbs and want to replace the six foot long bunks with eight foot long bunks. The original bunks are 2x4's covered with grey padding.

TWO questions here ...... plus a THIRD bonus question .... plus a FOURTH wack-a-doozie insurance coverage question!

1) Should I use pressure treated or regular non-pressure treated 2x4' x eight feets?

2) To be equipment-vehicle road legal, do I need to move the two tail-lights from the rear of the steel trailer frame to the rear of the extended 2x4 bunks that will extend two feet back from the steel frame? I suspect that I do because the lights are called tail-lights which suggests they belong on the very rear of the trailer .....ie ....like a tail on a dog?
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Here's a third question, not about the trailer but about the registration hull numbers .... just last week I bought a craigslist-on-Cape Cod-1987-Saroca-16' sailboat fixer-upper for $500, and am in the process of fixing it up, and painting it brite green.

www.saroca.com

3) A 16' sailboat is only required to have the yearly (orange sticker-2014) and not have the reg numbers displayed on the bow hull area. If this 16' sailboat has an electric trolling motor, does this rule change, and does having an electric stern mounted motor require it to have the reg numbers displayed on the hull in the two normal locations up front on the bow? Also, ditto that for running lights; a 16' sailboat requires a single white laight at night, while a motorboat requires running lights .....


And, here's a fourth question.....yikes......am I full of questions today or what?


4) You know that having a motor on a sailboat like this, a 16' sailboat, raises the price for the annual registration......the registration process asked me if it has a motor and an electric trolling motor was considered to be 10-hp by the MP registration process and it cost more....even though it is the equal of maybe 1/2 of one horsepower.....like maybe ten dollars extra up to about 38-dollars. So, this raises another question, a forth question, boy am I full of questions today or what; if this 16' sailboat registration has paid the extra money for the motor option and is involved in a collision with another boat, but at the time of the accident did NOT have the portable outboard electric motor on the boat.....it was left in the shed ashore......for insurance purposes.....is this sailboat now considered a non-motorized boat which is covered by standard home owners insurance, or does having the motor option on the registration automatically make it a motor boat, legally, which requires separate insurance coverage ....because the motor option is on the registration......but not on the boat ...... at the time of the collision, or the sinking, or some type of accident on the water?

Good insurance coverage costs about 102-dollars extra for this sailboat with a little electric trolling motor, but would be covered by standard home owners policy if it had no motor (?).



....nice thing about a sailboat..... at least ... the wind is free!