I've done much the same several times. A cheapie trailer sold for a '14' jon boat' refitted to carry a 20' Flying Dutchman sailboat. Basically fitting the centerline rollers to suit the FD hull shape and setting the bunks correctly. You don't want to transmit a twisting trailer's loads to the hull of a lightweight sailboat!
Then I add a plywood deck making it into a utility trailer.
Since the FD is so long compared to the trailer, I use a second set of lights hung on the boat's transom. I just have to transfer the license plate from one set of lights to the other. Pic shows the FD in 2012 rigged for the first time since 1992 (at the end of an 11 summers' eve long restoration). Towing pic in the Airondacks in 2015. Somewhere, I have a pic of my other trailer with an Atomic 4 sitting on blocks on the plywood.
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