I'm in West Virginia. Don't need a galvanized trailer necessarily. No salt water opperation. The original trailer is banged in a couple of places, the fenders are rusted/corroded badly, brakes don't work at all and in general disrepair. The boat is above, average don't know what happened to the trailer before I bought it. Seems like it might be easier to replace, and not much more costly, than to repair the old one.