Wooden home built trailer

[Byron Kinnaman]

Originally Posted by Bruce H

I have a friend who used to build and sell cedar strip canoes. They were fairly light weight. I have often thought of using the principle to build an RV trailer shell, shaped a little stubbier but with a pointed front and rear so it would slip through the air easily. Also I really like this guy's wood burning stoves.

Stripper canoes are pretty light, not as light as Kevlar, but still light. The construction I've seen is two layers of fiberglass cloth in and two outside and third on the bottom. Once cured it doesn't take much to hold the shape and is pretty strong. I seem to remember 1 cross member in the middle and then the seats became part of the structure.
I would think that making a stripper trailer using the same technique and the structure elements in trailers like Scamp and Casita would work. Work is right, but very pretty.