I usually don’t have trouble driving my boat up onto the trailer. I leave the forward bunks about 10 inches out of the water, and that seems to do the trick.
However, sometimes I am a complete disaster. Today, for instance, I had the trailer too deep in the water, and I actually ended up having to jump into the lake to try to push the boat onto the trailer and away from adjacent boats with engines running.
What is the general rule on the depth of the trailer? Is too deep a common problem?
More importantly, why is it that my boat was swinging off the bunks and one of the guys nearby who came to help me said I should actually pull the trailer out of the water two more feet and then push the boat over onto the bunks.
That seem counterintuitive to me, but he was absolutely right. Somehow, by pulling the trailer further out of the water we were able to push the boat onto proper seating.
The other thing that happened, and which mystifies me, is that when I had the boat trailer too deep I was actually unable to back the boat off the trailer in reverse. Something was getting caught somehow.
Anyway, any comments or ideas would be appreciated. I’m still drying off. Thank you.
