Has anyone used a Venturcraft Trailer?

[LexusAllTerrain]

I just got the scoop, there is one trailer available for sale and the selling price is 2000.00 I guess I am taking a short trip to go check this one out!

Your thoughts!

 

[ntsqd]

Did you buy it yet?

 

[LexusAllTerrain]

Did you buy it yet?

No, I am going to take a trip this weekend to go see it live, I have not seen pictures I only got a description, no title, however they say it is in very good condition and it is ready to roll!

Will find out!:drool:

 

[LexusAllTerrain]

Did you buy it yet?

A friend of mine bought it!

 

[highlandercj-7]

The single thing that I do not like about the one I have is the hard cover over the tent. From what I've been able to determine was an extra cost option in place the standard canvas cover. It does allow for kayak or bike racks where the soft cover doesn't easily lend itself to that. Why I do not like it is that I can not remove it by myself, and prior to her starting training for a Sprint Tri it was all my GF could do to help.

A marine canvas shop quoted me $250 to make a soft cover, but he really didn't like the idea of the normal securing methods given where and what it was. He suggested that I make stringers that secured to the hard cover's hold-downs, and then he'd attach the soft cover to those.

You are so so-cal.:sombrero: LOL, I would love to have a hard cover for my old Apachee. I am in the process of opeing it up and cleaning it again as water has penetrated the soft cover, again. I'm thinking of cutting down a F/S truck bedliner to fab a hard cover to keep the nasties and snow out.

 

[ntsqd]

A plastic truck bedliner would weigh less than 1/3 of what the hard cover weighs. Lifting it and the tent to access the lower part of the tub is all that I want to do. If it were as light as a plastic bedliner I'd be good and not at all interested in a soft cover. This thing is chopper gunned 'glass at least 1/4" thick at the thin regions and nearly 1/2" thick in the thicker flat panels.

If I had both covers I would likely store it with the hard cover on it, but I'd leave it at home.