I could never get away with 2 boats, it would be a relationship suicide. You are correct, its not needed but if I want a boat it has to be one at a time and erie is 4 hours from home.

I guess you just haven't trained your wife right.  Mine would think something was wrong if I didn't have several.  When we got married in 1969 I had three and bought a fourth shortly after getting married.  I had my 4WD Bronco and my car also.  She has always assumed that's normal and there has never been any discussion on why I always need several boats and vehicles.

Jfrancho I know!!!! Ive seen those guys in steep ramps rev the boats up into the trailer while pulling the car away so that the momentum from the boat would push the car and trailer up the ramp. It was a sight!!! 

 

My car pulls the boat easily and I dont have trouble stopping the car unless Im going down hill for a half hour or so. the breaks get a little hot but nothing to be worried. the car can stop no problem. Im also taking a detour to avoid traffic and cops that makes my trip 30 minutes longer. 

I used to two my father's 1970 16' Terry boat with my '74 Camaro!  Oh that raised a number of eyebrows as I traveled down the freeway. LOL!  But hey, it worked.  I never took a picture of it hooked up to the boat.  Wish I had now.

 

My father still has that boat, and we still fish out of it.  Kinda fun. 

Well, if you really wanted to see something.  In 1965 I bought a new 14' Glass Master, runabout with a 65hp Merc on it, and pulled it with a VW Karmann Ghia.  Boat was twice as big as the car and had a fairly steep ramp to load and unload on.  I had one time the ramp was a little slick and I started back with the boat, when I went to stop, it almost didn't, dang near put the back end under water, it did get the muffler and part of the motor but not the carb and it stayed running so I could pull back forward some.

You don't need all that to fish Erie.  A 16-17' deep-V tiller, and a 50-60 hp motor.  I fished Lake Ontario for years with this setup, in some pretty nasty stuff.  Never worried about getting back safe.

 

Here's my dad, in the old Sea Nymph, note the horizon line, heh:

Got a buddy who trolls Lake Michigan for salmon out of a 16ft Lund tiller. 40hp with a 9.9 kicker. Runs 6 rods. 2 on riggers and the others either on dipseys or birds.

Here's the truck pictures for those still interested!

Sweet rig!  You're going to love it!

Beautiful, a little envious

Yeah, that's real nice! You are gonna love it!

Very nice!

 

I'm just mighty glad I don't have your payments and insurance bill.

Very nice!

 

I'm just mighty glad I don't have your payments and insurance bill.

Haha the insurance and payments are not much more then what I paid for my Honda Civic... however gas money is a different story :/...

 

Anyways I'm glad you guys like the new truck. I couldn't be happier with it!!! Now I just have to keep saving for the boat.

I live in southern california. So that means reservoirs like El Capitan, Diamond Valley Lake, Hodges, Lower Otay, and Sutherland. Most of these lakes I have to travel to and they vary from small to large. Since they are reservoirs they tend to get very windy in the afternoon for the rest of the day. I have to do a good amount of research before I know what kind of boat I am going to start with.

Gas is why my 4WD, 350 Chevy mainly is only used when towing the big boat.  I mostly use my 93 Toyota 4WD pickup towing the jon boats.  I've ported the head, raised compression and did a few other mods and it gets 32 mpg on the two lane roads where I keep it under 65.  On the interstate it still gets 26 @ 75 and about that just running around.  The chevy gets about16, and 13 running 70 with 3,200 pounds of boat behind it, but I haven't been into that motor "yet".

i don't trailer or go off roading, but i just prefer to have a 4x4. i can't justify having it and would love better mileage, but 4x4 does a lot when it's need. even some dirt roads when wet pulling a trailer can be bad. there's some snow and ice here and it helps with it, also if i just happen to slide off enough and lose traction it keeps me from looking like an idiot if i stop on the shoulder to pee    and wind up with flashers on spinning.