Re: roller trailers
This should really be in the trailer section of the forum. I'm sure a Mod will move it. Anyway, roller trailers are better for launching and retrieving at shallow ramps because there is very little resistance moving fore and aft. You don't have to "float" the boat off the trailer like you do with bunks, and winching it back on is easier too. A bunk trailer distributes the weight of the boat across a much larger area of the hull rather than just at the points where the roller contacts. I have a roller trailer on my current boat and all my others were bunk trailers. I prefer the bunk trailers because the load is distributed and because when loading by myself, the boat doesn't want to fall off the back of the trailer and I have time to get the winch strap hooked up. This is because the ramp I use mostly has no dock alongside the ramp so you can't walk the boat onto the trailer, you idle it on and then in my case I climb over the bow and hook up the winch strap. With the rollers, it would just roll back in the water if I put the engine in neutral or shut it off. Don't like having to leave it in gear to load, so I'm going back to bunks. Just my preference.
