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I did white, with navy stripe and frost gray bottom for my R6 Surf. I thought the frost gray bottom looked good on the bottom, and added a bit of subtle contrast. Pictures of course when I get it (supposed to ship next week).

carrera wrote: Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:19 pm I did white, with navy stripe and frost gray bottom for my R6 Surf. I thought the frost gray bottom looked good on the bottom, and added a bit of subtle contrast. Pictures of course when I get it (supposed to ship next week).

I do really like the frost gray. Don't know what I would have picked if I had been ordering. We had panic attack after going 20 hours without owning a boat, and the only choices at our dealer were blue, and blue on blue. We went with blue on blue because of the premium sound and soft mats.

AsLan7 wrote: Sat Jul 10, 2021 4:09 pm

tfarmer wrote: Sat Jul 10, 2021 12:01 pm My first boat was a R5 that was Ebony hull, Pacific Blue stripe and white bottom. When I ordered our R6 Surf I continued that combo with Pacific Blue top, Ebony middle, Pacific Blue stripe and white bottom. Our trailer turned out great as well.

Ebony shows water spots really bad. However it only takes a 5 minute wipe down. So far haven’t had to use hot sauce on it. This could be from the full ceramic coating I had done.

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Loce that color combo TF. High maintenance but worth it.

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Agree. WOW!

My red bottom still looks great after 3 years. I do have it on a lift. My last boat has a white bottom and definitely showed more with water lines and such.
I also had ebony on my last boat hull and I had issues with water spots and scratches. White hull is definitely less maintenance imo.

tfarmer wrote: Sat Jul 10, 2021 12:01 pm My first boat was a R5 that was Ebony hull, Pacific Blue stripe and white bottom. When I ordered our R6 Surf I continued that combo with Pacific Blue top, Ebony middle, Pacific Blue stripe and white bottom. Our trailer turned out great as well.

Ebony shows water spots really bad. However it only takes a 5 minute wipe down. So far haven’t had to use hot sauce on it. This could be from the full ceramic coating I had done.

I love that color combo. I was going to get that for the R6 surf we ordered but the family wanted ebony with red boot stipe. Is that an EZ loader trailer? I like the prop protection

The trailer is from Heritage. They make the best trailers for Cobalts I’ve ever seen. https://heritagetrailers.com/trailers/tandem-axle/

tfarmer wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 8:47 pm The trailer is from Heritage. They make the best trailers for Cobalts I’ve ever seen. https://heritagetrailers.com/trailers/tandem-axle/

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They do make some nice ones.

AsLan7 wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:02 pm

tfarmer wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 8:47 pm The trailer is from Heritage. They make the best trailers for Cobalts I’ve ever seen. https://heritagetrailers.com/trailers/tandem-axle/

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They do make some nice ones.

They look nice but Loadmaster makes a trailer that not only looks good but is the toughest out there. How many cross members do you have, I have 7. Is yours made out of a box frame that rust’s from the inside out because they can’t paint and prep the inside of a tube? Mine is made out of 6” structural C channel steel that they can paint the entire trailer, no boxed beams. I am not picking on anyone but you won’t find a better trailer in the Midwest than a Loadmaster trailer. Plus they are totally custom built, they will pretty much do whatever you ask them to do.

Sounds like you got a great trailer. I guess it all depends on how much the trailer will get used. For me I put my boat in the water at the beginning of the season and it stays on the lift till the end of the season. The trailer during that time gets stored in a garage and the whole boat and trailer gets stored indoors in the winter. I drive about 2 miles to the closest boat ramp when launching.

tfarmer wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:02 am Sounds like you got a great trailer. I guess it all depends on how much the trailer will get used. For me I put my boat in the water at the beginning of the season and it stays on the lift till the end of the season. The trailer during that time gets stored in a garage and the whole boat and trailer gets stored indoors in the winter. I drive about 2 miles to the closest boat ramp when launching.

Exactly, I drive 75-80 miles one way to go to the place that we like to boat. If I kept mine on a lift I would probably just have a storage trailer for winter.. I had a really nice looking EZ Loader that I nick named the Not So EZ Loader trailer for the first few years we had our R5. That thing was horrible to try to get the boat on straight and it was only built with 3700lb axels. I had our R5 on the scale with a half tank of gas and nothing else in it and I was 6800lbs. I don’t like running down the road as much as I do with the max load on a trailer. Something bad will eventually happen. Now I have a 12,000lb GVW trailer, I can basically haul an R5 with an R3 on top of the R5 and not be overloaded! Loadmaster wouldn’t spec my trailer with anything less than 6,000lb axels.

Snowman8 wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:41 pm

tfarmer wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:02 am Sounds like you got a great trailer. I guess it all depends on how much the trailer will get used. For me I put my boat in the water at the beginning of the season and it stays on the lift till the end of the season. The trailer during that time gets stored in a garage and the whole boat and trailer gets stored indoors in the winter. I drive about 2 miles to the closest boat ramp when launching.

Exactly, I drive 75-80 miles one way to go to the place that we like to boat. If I kept mine on a lift I would probably just have a storage trailer for winter.. I had a really nice looking EZ Loader that I nick named the Not So EZ Loader trailer for the first few years we had our R5. That thing was horrible to try to get the boat on straight and it was only built with 3700lb axels. I had our R5 on the scale with a half tank of gas and nothing else in it and I was 6800lbs. I don’t like running down the road as much as I do with the max load on a trailer. Something bad will eventually happen. Now I have a 12,000lb GVW trailer, I can basically haul an R5 with an R3 on top of the R5 and not be overloaded! Loadmaster wouldn’t spec my trailer with anything less than 6,000lb axels.

I think the key here is to stay clear of complete junk trailers that; 1) dont load well or 2) pull well because of improper tongue weight/axle location. Yes yours sounds like it could haul that boat to Alaska and back. Most people dont need that much over build, but if it is the same cost as a competitor I would be first in line for a Loadmaster. I didnt buy a Loadmaster because of the lack of a swing tongue, yes they have a removable tongue but that trailer is still longer than my Heritage.

I would also like to say my Heritage loads easy enough I could pull it on with a dock line. It also pulls very well too, now I have only made 3 longer trips; 3 to Okoboji (100m 1 way) and one trip to TRL (450m 1 way) but it is still head and tails above the trailer 25 year old trailer under our old 220. And I have no problem doing these trips again - although I would refrain from taking any boat to Alaska.

I'll chime in with my blue in the middle of it's 4th season. Thinking about red/gray combo that is in the new surf promotion videos for my R8.

Soonerfan wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:41 pm I'll chime in with my blue in the middle of it's 4th season. Thinking about red/gray combo that is in the new surf promotion videos for my R8.

The new Surf graphics look awesome. My favorite is frost gray hull side with Navy on the upper hull, boot stripe, and Hockey stick. There was one at the regatta but I failed to take a photo.