Boat Sliding Off Trailer When Launching

[Sido]

Hello Fello Fishraiders,

Bought my new Quintrex bowrider a few months agao and very happy overall.

Last few outings when I launch the boat - as soon as I release the winch strap the boat starts to slide off - never did it the first dozen times - so I have to wind the winch handle backwards and let the boat slide into the water slowly.

Can anyone assist - I have not changed or done anything with the rollers etc and the boat sits well on them and teh blue skids.

I asked the dealer and they said just put it in deeper when launching which should stop it but it never did it originally.

Thanks

Sido

[Fisherman36]

The only thing I can think of is the angle is too high. Are you putting it in as far as you used to? The other thing you can do (not a fix but it will assist) is tie a rope around your bow and loop it a couple of times over the winch post. Make sure the loops on the winch post sit above each other (last loop should be on top). This will take the weight of the boat and let you release the winch strap. You can then lower it gently using the rope.

Cheers

[Sido]

Thanks Insomniac - will try that.

No not doing anythig different and has done it on different boat ramps.

[a boat]

Hi, that is the best way to launch a boat and how I do it daily if the trailer is set-up right. You keep the trailer dry ( and therefore have no need to spend money on wheel bearings and lights) and wind the boat off and wind the boat on. I see it all the time at the ramp, guys will dunk the trailer and then stand there and wind the boat on, why not keep the trailer dry and wind the boat on. Even other dealers, who are so called experts, will totally dunk the trailer (and 9 time out of 10 it is new trailer-glad it is not mine) and wind the boat on when with todays trailers on a good ramp you can laund and retriev the boat by only getting the tyres wet.

Each to their own though and we get alot more work with wheel bearings, brakes and lights if people continue to dunk their trailer.

Cheers,

Huey.

[Sido]

Thanks Huey - great advice.

[tuffy]

Sido, another suggestion is to adjust your skids slightly. If the boat is new it was obviously set up properly to begin with, but as you have travelled a bit now, with some boat movement on the trailer while towing, it could have dropped the skids slightly. You can check this by rocking the boat while on the trailer and if there is the slightest movement side to side then just nip up the skids a bit and make sure the bolts are tight.New rigs have a habit of settling a bit, so adjustments are necessary.

Cheers, Tuffy.

[Sido]

Hi Huey,

For your method to work - do you dunk the last roller in the water only or the whole trailer/rollers sit above the water line?

Thanks

Sido

[Sido]

Thanks Tuffy - I will check that.

Cheers

Sido

[Thunderace]

mine gets stuck on the skids, any idea what i can put on them to make it more slippery ????

[deek]

Thunderace,

I use Lanogard or Inox and spray it onto the skids.

Deek

[a boat]

Hi, when I water test any boat I keep the running gear dry and slowly wind the boat off and that way

the cost of maintaining your trailer will be dramatically less. Go onto youtube and do a search for the Haines Hunter 560C test that Fishing World did recently and you will see a 19 heavy glass boat launched and retrieved the correct way.

Cheers,

Huey.

[dunc333]

thanks for that huey very handy piece of knowledge.

[Sido]

Thanks also from me Huey - I watched the youtube test - brilliant way not to get the trailer wet.

Cheers - Sido

[deek]

I just watched it as well. I'll be trying this method next time.

Deek

[johnno]

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[garryl]

Hmmmmm, I used to launch the tinny like that to keep the trailer bearings out of the water. I was always scared of them rusting away. I thought the "proper" way was to dunk the trailer, I guess it's the way "everyone" does it. I'll certainly be giving it a go.

[njg02]

Sido, I'd leave it. They aren't heavy to winch up. I had one for 10years and never got the axles wet.

My current boat is a different story. Whittley 580. I've adjusted everything and still have to shove all the way and winch like a demon to get it back up, which isn't nice with arthritic shoulders. Huey. Does that trailer on the vid have centre rollers as well?

Neil

[cameldownunder]

Sometimes I see people powering the boat on the trailer. I suppose that doing this ruins the ramp (because it underwashes the ramp itself), makes it hard for the other people to land their boat (because it literally sucks your boat to them), is noisy and you cannot do it alone. Correct?

[a boat]

Hi Neil, yes the Tinka trailer comes with keel roller and bilge roolers like all good trailers should. Trailers are the often forgottn part of a BMT and 99% of dealers will put a boat on the cheapest trailer possible, whereas I, with something like a top shelf boat in a Haines Hunter I will rig with only the bets trailer and engine-yes it costs more but with over 45 years of servicing and selling boats you learn not to skimp on trailers.

Yes I agree with you camel, I have seen some very stupid things done by people at ramps and as i said before some of the worse are so called experts that do not know how to even drive a boat properly.

Cheers,

Huey.