Re: Bunk Lubrication
Do you really want a 7k boat seated on a slick surface/frictionless?
One hard stop should tell you if your straps are strong enough to hold the boat on the trailer.
Every hard stop will tell you if the straps are strong enough.
The friction of bare, un-lubricated carpeting will not be strong enough to hold the boat in place.
It is shifting a bit at every start and stop, you just never see it.
Even with Bunk Lube, it still takes a He-man shove to get it started.
Once it starts moving it keeps going.
Lube helps a lot, but it is far from frictionless.
Occasionally, I will detach the bow and backup a few inches and bump the brakes to get it to launch.
This does not always work on the first attempt. It is on there better than you might imagine.
Consider the thousand of boats on Rollers; They have almost no starting friction.
Without total reliance on the straps, you would never make it out of the driveway.
Roller Bunks on a Launch Ramp.