Define power loading for me my good sir. I thought powerloading meant excessively reving  your engine and driving your boat up the trailer faster than neccesary. Can I get fined for not manually loading my boat?

Power loading is defined as using the boat's engine to load the boat on to the trailer and unless the use of outboards is prohibited or doing so is prohibited on your waters, no you can't get fined.

The Coast Guard only recommends not doing so as a saftey precaution.

The most exciting part of bass fishing from a bass boat:  trailering the boat.

 

Really, I am not joking.

 

As I have suggested previously, take your favorite adult beverage and a lawn chair and go to your favorite ramp on a Saturday or Sunday and enjoy the proceedings.

 

You will see things you never imagined could happen.

The bass boat owners generally load and unload without much ado.  Pontoons, bowriders, and deck boats, now that's good stuff!

I have a jet outboard, so driving the boat on is ridiculously simple in the skinniest of water.  Electric only lakes, I can pull the boat on most of the way with the bow rope, then winch the last few feet.  My boat it very light, so that makes it much easier.

 

I do enjoy seeing people cringe when I pull the trailer out without tilting the motor all the time.

I am guilty of being frustrated and angry when I was learning to back a boat trailer and then trailer the boat at the end of the day. I'm the first in my family to own and use a boat. I learn by doing. Instructions only take you so far. However, I don't think I ever just packed up and left. This video cracks me up every time I see it (warning: harsh language towards the end).

 

How to back a trailer (without the swearing):

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-videos/backing-a-trailer.html

 

How to load a boat onto a trailer (using only a slight amount of power-loading):

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-videos/trailer-bunks.html

Without swearing? Well, where the fun in that, Glenn? lol