Boat launching procedures

[boman]

I learned to back a trailer in one lesson (not an easy lesson neither.)
I towed the trailer down a looooong driveway. And found at the end that there was no room to turn around AT ALL! Not even for the car. So I backed it out...eventually. Never had any trouble since...

I was a pasenger in a Anchor Milk tanker that missed the turnoff on a no exit road. The driver, a friend of mine, had to back a trailer and the dog up the road about 2kms till he found the drive to turn up. Very impressed. He only had a couple of stops in that distance. I know I couldn't do that in a car.

[Laava]

Also when towing your prized new 6m figlass from Aucks to Tutukaka, check at some stage that you have the keys! When it is floating away from the trailer, it is too late!

[dwnundabkr]

or the classic now picture this
530am one summers morning at the ramp with 15 other boats lined up to the start of a fishing comp
back trailer down launch my boat no probs, beach it return to ramp tow trailer up the ramp unhook trailer, race down drive pick up another keen fishos boat on trailer ask if all ready, Yep is the answer all go, get him to jump in, drive down drive to ramp back down ramp get other fisho to start motor unhook boat back him off trailer race up ramp to unhook his trailer race to my boat fire it up all done before 6am start only to hear from other fisho that i has just launched heeeelp i am sinking
hehehehe no bung

[nothingflash]

If you're gonna be a smart ass and ski up to the shore it looks way more impressive to onlookers and is much better for the ski's and definitely for the legs if you let go too soon rather than too late

[Fly_boy]

watched somone launch there brand new boat they just got for the holidays at havlock . they backed the trailer in ok ,got the boat in the water and realized they had forgot the bungs, so in there rush to get the boat back out as it was sinking the never chained it to the trailer so they get halfway up the ramp and the boat slips off the trailer and is stuck until they get a crane to lift it back onto the trailer lol poor buggers

[LBD]

*Honest post*.

For a bit of FREE entertainment and a lot of laughter, pop along to the Half Moon Bay boat ramp...

I spent a VERY enjoyable half hour watching people attempting to reverse a boat down the ramp and into the water!
Highly recommended during the height of summer...

Any launching ramp...especially a busy one during the holiday season when boats and cars are queing up...tempers get frayed...good entertaiment

He did one thing right....Kept the trailer bearings out of the water...