No Center Attachment for Hauling onto the Trailer

Jeff J

Petty Officer 1st Class
Joined
Jun 23, 2021
Messages
365
Back the trailer in deep enough and float the pontoon on
That’s what I used to do with the 24’ Fisher I used to own. It usually took a couple of tries to get it straight on the bunks.

I removed the stock guides on a work trailer. The boats kept floating over them and getting hung up.
 

legalfee

Chief Petty Officer
Joined
May 10, 2018
Messages
409
That’s what I used to do with the 24’ Fisher I used to own. It usually took a couple of tries to get it straight on the bunks.

I removed the stock guides on a work trailer. The boats kept floating over them and getting hung up.
Or power it up on the trailer.
 

Jeff J

Petty Officer 1st Class
Joined
Jun 23, 2021
Messages
365
Or power it up on the trailer.
Very seldom can that be done with a 2 tube boat. Mine had a 90hp, which was max allowed on the tag, and it wouldn’t push onto the trailer if any of the bunks were showing. The 150hp tri-toons push pretty good but still end up crooked, even with guides.
 

legalfee

Chief Petty Officer
Joined
May 10, 2018
Messages
409
Very seldom can that be done with a 2 tube boat. Mine had a 90hp, which was max allowed on the tag, and it wouldn’t push onto the trailer if any of the bunks were showing. The 150hp tri-toons push pretty good but still end up crooked, even with guides.
I was able to drive my Suzuki 115 24 ft Sylvan 2 tube up on the trailer. I had to give it some throttle though.
 

DeepCMark58A

Commander
Joined
Aug 17, 2015
Messages
2,778
power loading is illegal in most locations. it wrecks the ramp.
Has it ever been enforced? I do not do it because I fear wrecking stuff while there is a low impact alternative. Funny that people that spend a day on the water are so adverse to getting in the water to load out a boat.
 

Scott Danforth

Grumpy Vintage Moderator still playing with boats
Staff member
Joined
Jul 23, 2011
Messages
51,695
I know its enforced on two of the ramps here in Florida, and the two ramps on the lake my buddy lives on up in Sturgeon Bay.

it only took a week of people power loading to have a spoil pile so big behind the ramp apron on the SR64 ramp at the Manatee/Braden River (just inland from Snead) the county needed to come back out and dredge.
 

Jeff J

Petty Officer 1st Class
Joined
Jun 23, 2021
Messages
365
Has it ever been enforced? I do not do it because I fear wrecking stuff while there is a low impact alternative. Funny that people that spend a day on the water are so adverse to getting in the water to load out a boat.
While I have waded in chest deep while fully dressed and in my work boots to load boats I do everything I can to keep my feet dry. I don’t like wearing wet work boats. I grab my muck boots if I think of it before I leave the house but they are only knee high anyway. As much as I don’t I don’t want the lake in my boots, I want it less in my truck. I don’t go to the lake to swim or ski.
 
Top