05-09-2017, 05:33 PM
good reminders, I cant for the life of me figure out why people leave their boat trailers in the water more than absolutely necessary, the less your wheel bearings are submerged the less chance of water getting in, when launching alone it does take a little time, but when I launch with two people my trailer goes in long enough to back the boat off, and when retrieving the boat, the driver stops at the waters edge until I'm only about 50 to 100 feet from the trailer then backs in far enough to load, so far (knock on wood) I have not had a bearing failure, a little backing practice in an empty parking lot could help could speed things up at the ramp also, I watched some pwc guy back up until his trailer was almost jackknifed then he would get out and drag it straight then back up until it went sideways again, would have been more entertaining if I wasn't getting devoured by mosquitos waiting..
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