Shield Trailers

[gim]

I saw one of these on display at the Northwest Sportshow last weekend here. Interesting concept, but a little steep starting at $45k.

 

https://www.shieldtrailers.com

[MN Fisher]

One thing that made me scratch my head.

 

He left the truck/trailer ON the ramp as he sped off.

 

Good advertising there guys - your trailer is worth so much you purposefully block others from launching/landing.

[Deleted account]

I can see something like that for long hauling, or storage, but not to drive to the ramp and launch.

[Way north bass guy]

Not to mention that it looks like it takes a heck of a lot more time to actually launch the boat. I can pretty much launch mine the same speed as he did, and that video was sped up. 
I’m sure the other guys in line behind me would just love to wait while I took 20 min to put the boat in the water ?

[volzfan59]

Reminds me of Fish Fishborne's old trailer from his B.A.S.S. (the true Major League of Bass Fishing) tournament time and his old fishing show, Go Fish! He had a traveling tackle room in the front of the trailer. He used to come into the BPS that I worked at quite a bit. He and I talked about the rig a few times.

 

Go Team Grandma!

[Jigfishn10]

18 hours ago, gimruis said:

I saw one of these on display at the Northwest Sportshow last weekend here. Interesting concept, but a little steep starting at $45k.

 

https://www.shieldtrailers.com

My next 45K I spend will be on a bigger boat.  

Interesting though. My question is, is there a door in front of the trailer to get in or do you have to get soaked and enter from the rear? I may have missed that.

[volzfan59]

33 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

My next 45K I spend will be on a bigger boat.  

Interesting though. My question is, is there a door in front of the trailer to get in or do you have to get soaked and enter from the rear? I may have missed that.

If it's like the enclosed trailer that Fish had, there is a door at the front of the trailer. On his, you entered through the tackle room and then into the boat area. He said that he liked the convenience of it, but that it was a bear to haul around. I'm pretty sure that he towed with a Chevrolet duelly.

[schplurg]

On 3/14/2022 at 6:01 PM, Deleted account said:

I can see something like that for long hauling, or storage, but not to drive to the ramp and launch.

Yep.

 

How do you load gear into your boat?

How do wipe the boat down at the end of the day, or ever?

How do you wash the boat?

Work on it? Change the oil?

 

I dunno man, you're gonna have to have a regular trailer to do all of this stuff, and you will need two trucks at the lake to switch trailers.

 

This trailer could fill a very specific role, but these are just a few things that popped into my head. Is there room for tools? Car racers use semi trailers to haul their stuff, but this isn't that big. It doesn't seem practical.

 

I see this trailer as solving two problems - theft of gear from the boat and no rocks dinging up the paint on the highway. If you have no garage then you can keep the boat enclosed in it year round. But if you can afford this, you have a garage

 

Edit:

 

The more I think about it, even if you're a big time professional tour angler you still need to work on your boat sometimes while on the road. With this trailer that seems impossible.

[WRB]

In the mid 90’s a few bass boat trailer had a fiberglass shell covered the boat on the trailer. 

The shell backend was tied down with tradition stern straps, the front was hinged and lifted hydraulically to get into or out of the boat. Cool looking cover and theft proof but obviously didn’t catch on.

Tom

 

[TnRiver46]

What in the wide world of sports is going on here ??!!!

[Jig Man]

I think some guys are way beyond cabin fever.

[Bolar]

Risk voiding my Tracker warranty?  No way