Any of you guys got any tips for getting a boat launched when you can't quiet get it to the water.

Hit the brakes really hard.............. What exactly are you trying to do?

how far from water? terrian? Boat size? Lots of variables to take into consideration

a buncha 4" pvc ...

2054 Sbx Prodrive, terrain is flat and sandy get stuck before boat floats. I got 38s and a locker in my diesel but still a little to much.

well at my local wma , you have to go over a levy .. there's about 10 ; 4" x 6' long pieces laid out to slide your boat over.. going down into the later shouldnt be a problem for you

The beat and safest way to do this is just bring another truck with alot of chain and azz.

diesel+ 38s+ lockers would be a bad stuck..

find some hard ground to get as close as you can to the water.. I have dropped boats off the bank before on the trailor.. just gotta have a 4wd to pull the boat up

Steelflex

Small strips of teflon on the boards of your trailer. You can practically push a level boat off a trailer. Just make sure you strap the piss out of it before hauling. LOL

Try this. Drop the trailer on the ground. Push the boat back with the trailer. Make sure your bow rope is connected to the trailer. Reverse the action to load boat back on trailer.

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Is that the boat Woodiebuster wants to put a PD on????

Like others have mentioned, you will need pvc or timbers on which the boat can slide. Get as close to the water as you can. Make a yoke out of a dockline and tie it to both stern eyes or handles. Set an anchor behind the boat and tie it as tightly as possible to the yoke. Lay the timbers or pvc behind and underneath the trailer. Gently ease the truck forward and let the truck pull the trailer out from under the boat. Slide the boat to the water on the timbers or pvc.

To load, reverse the process by laying out the pvc or timbers and running the boat onto them. Get the trailer as close to the boat as possible, keeping it perfectly aligned, then pull forward one boat length, keeping the truck where it still has traction and is not stuck. Put a guy in the truck minding the brake and keeping the truck in neutral, and use the winch to pull the trailer/truck and boat together. The boat will slide some, the truck should roll back some. Depending on how your trailer and your boat's bow are set up, you may need a couple of guys to boost the bow up to get it started on the skids or rollers of the trailer. The good news is that if there are ruts, the trailer will be nice and low and the boat won't have to make much of a climb onto the trailer.

A tilting trailer and a power winch make this much easer, but we've done it with manual winches on mud, dirt, bank gravel, snow, and ice, on boats up to 18', without timbers or pvc. I've got to admit, I would not want to do it often. Best of Luck!

Airboat?

If there's a tree in the water hook a pulley to it and drive away pulling it into the water.

Awesome I will get some teflon strips and try that normally we can get the trailer wet but not wet enough. Those strips should work bad a$$.

You better install transom tie-downs on the trailer. I use those and a tie-down on the bow eye to winch stand. As careful as I have been after steel flexing my hull I still came really close to loosing it on a launch more than once. I can't unhook the winch untill I have backed down on steep ramps cause it will launch itself. Makes it tough when launching by myself sometimes.

Will Prodrive put some of that chit on my boat at there shop.

Yes lots of rocks, I will get the teflon and see what happens.

Should work, like I said just hit the brakes hard and watch it fly...........

or......... you could get a light rig like mine, take the motor off the transom and carry it a ways off, then slide the boat off the trailer and carry it to the motor.

Disclaimer: I HAVE NEVER TRIED THIS!

This is an idea I have had for a while that may help in some VERY SPECIFIC situations. If the trailer winch (and you cranking it) have the beans to drag the boat onto the trailer if both are out of the water, then it should have the beans to drag the boat off the trailer. But how to do it? You hook a pulley (or maybe use the rear roller, but I don't know if it is strong enough) to the rear cross member of the trailer (which also has to be strong enough.) Around this pulley is a piece of rope or cable with a hook on one end and a loop or eye on the other. The rope goes forward over the cross members but under the boat and hooks to the bow eye. This rope must be long enough but not too long, about the length of your boat. You unspool the winch rope and take it back, also over the cross members but under the boat, and hook to the eye in the first rope. Cranking the winch should now drag your boat off the trailer.

Of course you can tie the back of the boat to something and pull the trailer out from under it, but that may not work in your situation. This idea is just another option that may help someone in a very specific situation. Yes this is a lot of trouble crawling under the trailer and such, but everything is a lot of trouble in these situations.

Again, I have never tried this, or even seen it done, but I think it will work. Clearly the rear cross member of the trailer has to be STRONG because it must take the tension of BOTH ropes, meaning whatever force it takes to drag the boat off the trailer, the rear cross member will see TWICE the force trying to bend it.

Hope this helps.

If the trailer is on a decline and wet but the boat is not then next time you have the boat off spray the bunks down real good with tire wet. That stuff has silicone in it and is super slick. I spray the bunks and bottom of my boat with it and when I launch I have to hold the boat while un hooking the winch or off he trailer it goes.

Never tried this stuff but its made to spray your bunks with. I never put carpet on my bunks which helps IMO.

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