Tomorrow is the day I pick up the boat from the state park storage yard, pull it down the hill 200 yds to one of the two monster launch ramps, drop it into the mighty Potomac and swap out the bunk boards for the Ultimate Premium bunks.  I love the Potomac, but it just eats the daylights out of everything (salt content) since I am only 20 miles up from the ocean and periods of no rain results in the salt line creeping up the river and it happens every year.  In this case, I bought a new galvanized trailer just nine years ago (the river ate my original powder coated trailer in just 11 years)  and one of the bunks has completely rotted away, but the galvanized trailer is holding its own.  That will end with the Ultimate Premium bunks.  I will change out two 5' and two 100".  I will try to post before and after pics.  Ah, so goes life on the Tidal Potomac.

4 hours ago, OnthePotomac said:

Tomorrow is the day I pick up the boat from the state park storage yard, pull it down the hill 200 yds to one of the two monster launch ramps, drop it into the mighty Potomac and swap out the bunk boards for the Ultimate Premium bunks.  I love the Potomac, but it just eats the daylights out of everything (salt content) since I am only 20 miles up from the ocean and periods of no rain results in the salt line creeping up the river and it happens every year.  In this case, I bought a new galvanized trailer just nine years ago (the river ate my original powder coated trailer in just 11 years)  and one of the bunks has completely rotted away, but the galvanized trailer is holding its own.  That will end with the Ultimate Premium bunks.  I will change out two 5' and two 100".  I will try to post before and after pics.  Ah, so goes life on the Tidal Potomac.

Reminds me of East TN. Pressure treated wood lasts 10 years here, sometimes less. My buddy was building a fence the other day and said “but this is pressure treated, it should last forever, right?” and we all got a healthy laugh. The only wood that lasts decades around here has to be alive 

I've had them on 2 different trailers now and I'll put them on my Stratos trailer when those bunks bite the dust. Not sure about on the salt, but they've held up to my winter time fishing and the chemical treated snow and slush that gets splashed on them along with dirt road dust, which eats everything it gets into.

I've been thinking about putting these on my trailer. Do they really help with loading and unloading? My boat is a bear to get on and off.

10 hours ago, JeffD said:

I've been thinking about putting these on my trailer. Do they really help with loading and unloading? My boat is a bear to get on and off.

Once they get wet, it's like a wet bar of soap in the bottom of a bathtub.

How do they work when they are dry?

They're still slicker than carpeted bunks. I can push my heavy johnboat off my trailer without it touching water as long it's got a slight incline.

On 9/15/2020 at 12:19 PM, OnthePotomac said:

Tomorrow is the day I pick up the boat from the state park storage yard, pull it down the hill 200 yds to one of the two monster launch ramps, drop it into the mighty Potomac and swap out the bunk boards for the Ultimate Premium bunks.  I love the Potomac, but it just eats the daylights out of everything (salt content) since I am only 20 miles up from the ocean and periods of no rain results in the salt line creeping up the river and it happens every year.  In this case, I bought a new galvanized trailer just nine years ago (the river ate my original powder coated trailer in just 11 years)  and one of the bunks has completely rotted away, but the galvanized trailer is holding its own.  That will end with the Ultimate Premium bunks.  I will change out two 5' and two 100".  I will try to post before and after pics.  Ah, so goes life on the Tidal Potomac.   

All did not go well today and only got two changed, a 5'   and a 100" next to it.  Problem is the other two are also rotten, but the bolts will not come out. Just enough strength that they spin, but will not let go.  They are really big lag bolts.  One day next week it will be a battery saw and and crow bar and cut the doggone things up to get them off.  Nothing is easy.   Good news is I put the boat back on the trailer OK

Do you know what the longest span is between your brackets that hold the bunks.

Yes, 38"

Thanks

On 9/17/2020 at 9:11 AM, OnthePotomac said:

All did not go well today and only got two changed, a 5'   and a 100" next to it.  Problem is the other two are also rotten, but the bolts will not come out. Just enough strength that they spin, but will not let go.  They are really big lag bolts.  One day next week it will be a battery saw and and crow bar and cut the doggone things up to get them off.  Nothing is easy.   Good news is I put the boat back on the trailer OK

Ouch. I feel your pain, I wollered all over a boat ramp parking lot for half a day doing mine, and I just used wood