My nephew has a trailer for his war eagle that pretty much rusted out two or three years later after being used eight or nine times in salt water. He rinsed real good but it gets inside the tubing and rusts from the inside out. I wonder if you launched in salt and then later put your trailer in fresh and just let it sit for awhile if that would work. Can you launch with a lift at a marina? I'm headed down in a couple of weeks and would REALLY like to have my boat there but don't want the trailer issues.