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Don White Don White is offline
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Default Pulling boat out with FWD


"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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On Apr 2, 5:37 am, "Don White" wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in
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On Apr 1, 9:36 am, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:


That's one of the reasons I sold my 19' weekender sailboat.
Our ramps are so shallow that the boat is still hard on the trailer when
the
tow vehicles rear wheels are touching the water. (you don't want to dunk
the
wheels in salt water)
To get my sailboat launched I had to drive ahead, gun in reverse and slam
on
the brakes three or four times. Not something for the faint hearted.


Don't sailboat usually have a trailer line allowing you to roll the
trailer way down into the water???

-Robert

Maybe for the keel boats.
For retractable keels like mine, the trailers are ordinary bunk or roller.