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#BoatPrep101 - Winter Maintenance: Trailing Safety

By Steve Cockerill 22nd February 2022

TRAILING SAFETY ESSENTIALS: With - VIDEO: How-To: Replace your Dinghy Trailer Hub Advice on Tie Down Straps Links to Hubs, bearings & wheels Trailer Lighting Boards When the trailer wheel on my new 4000 seized just 3 miles after collection, I can only assume that the hubs may have missed an annual service or two. Once the wheel bearings have been damaged, you might think you have an expensive and difficult challenge to change them, but you'd be wrong! You don’t even need to attempt the slightly stressful task of servicing/replacing the bearings and shims, instead you can purchase a...