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On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:48:55 -0500, HK wrote:

...to lift that tongue of that trailer by hand with the boat on it and
put it on the hitch ball? No, I don't mean youse guys with the small
boats.

I think the last time I was able to do this was in the late 1950s, with
my 15' Wolverine and 25 or 33 hp Big Twin.

It really just depends on how you load the trailer. You can load it
too far back and a child could lift the tongue but that is going to be
a weaving SOB on the highway. I usually load for about 125-150 on the
tongue with a fairly light pontoon boat and it tracks well on the
interstate. The tongue height is lowered and the deck has a tilt
forward so the deck gives me additional down force at highway speed.

Yeah, well, I was referring to a properly loaded trailer.

If memory serves, the tongue weight on my old 25' Parker was about 600+
pounds. I haven't checked the tongue weight on the new Parker yet, but I
can't lift the tongue by hand.

My little 13' Whaler is no problem. I recall that the Scout (just under
20') was "doable" but at the risk of popping a hernia.

Eisboch

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