I looked around and didn't see any thing about this. I have a loadright trailer with bunk boards. they are semi floating as the front can pivot 90 deg. Somehow beyond my knowledge and comprehension that's what one did coming home. Ripped the bolts completely out of the rear. The front mount was turn 90 deg inward so the boat was on the edge of the board. The back was on the trailer frame ( no no holes, didn't dent or even scuff the paint) . It's sitting on both boards now but one is out of wack in alignment. I'lll cut some old 2X4's for a frame and jack it up. Probably put in some extra bolts to prevent that extreme movement.

 

just a weird fyi????

9 hours ago, newbiedmv said:

Somehow beyond my knowledge and comprehension that's what one did coming home.

 

It did it while loading the boat on the trailer. 

 

The bottom of your boat has "ridges", "runners", whatever ya wanna call em. When loading the boat one hit the bunk rolling over.

 

Mine has 4 bunks, 2 just off centerline, & 2 to the outside. I also have side boards the guide the boat on the trailer. I replaced these with longer boards & adjusted them to where I have about an inch clearance. This keeps the boat straight when power loading.

Wow...

 your exactly right.

It's impossible to load this boat at this ramp by  my yourself manually without swiming in 6 feet of water. I have tall white guides on the sides in the back.

It cam in at a weird angle. I pushed it half off then it straightened up and loaded fine. Note at this ramp you have to deep load with a 100 ft bow line. With two people it's easy.  But you'll never find anyone there that knows how (all inflatables out of their trunk).

Thank you extremely much. Once i get the boat in the air I'll see what i can do to prevent it happening again

If I back down to far,  this will happen to me every time.  The only way to get my boat on straight is to let the bunks guide it on straight.  If it’s off two inches,  one of the “ridges” will cause one of the bunks to flip 90 degrees as you describe.  It took me a while to find the sweet spot when backing the trailer in.

Wow...

 your exactly right.

It's impossible to load this boat at this ramp by yourself manually without swiming in 6 feet of water. I have tall white guides on the sides in the back.

It cam in at a weird angle. I pushed it half off then it straightened up and loaded fine. Note at this ramp you have to deep load with a 100 ft bow line. With two people it's easy.  But you'll never find anyone there that knows how (all inflatables out of their trunk).

Thank you extremely much. Once i get the boat in the air I'll see what i can do to prevent it happening again

Front side runners i would guess. Can't get the pic to move with this phone.

Thank you...i still feel dumb but not a complete a......

Either that or load shallow and wear swim trunks.

 

10 minutes ago, newbiedmv said:

Wow...

 your exactly right.

It's impossible to load this boat at this ramp by yourself manually without swiming in 6 feet of water. I have tall white guides on the sides in the back.

It cam in at a weird angle. I pushed it half off then it straightened up and loaded fine. Note at this ramp you have to deep load with a 100 ft bow line. With two people it's easy.  But you'll never find anyone there that knows how (all inflatables out of their trunk).

Thank you extremely much. Once i get the boat in the air I'll see what i can do to prevent it happening again

Front side runners i would guess. Can't get the pic to move with this phone.

Thank you...i still feel dumb but not a complete a......

Either that or load shallow and wear swim trunks.

 

I launch and recover my rig solo all the time.

With & without a dock.

During the recovery, it's helps quite a bit to get the trailer at a depth that allows your boat to actually line itself up on the trailer.

Sinking the trailer too much is usually not what I want to do.

I use the trailer fenders as 'my guide'.

By having them just at water level, usually sets my rig up right.

This is a clip of my launch & recovery and it shows what I mean.

Hope that helps

A-Jay

30 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

During the recovery, it's helps quite a bit to get the trailer at a depth that allows your boat to actually line itself up on the trailer.

This even works on my canoe...didn't catch the vid yesterday, but set the trailer and just with the TM I powered the canoe onto the trailer...easy-peasy.

Yep...it was the deepest I've ever loaded. Just was to lazy to crank that winch. Won't happen again. It's nice to know although i might be the first to rip out the lag bolts I'm not the first that it's happened to. I usually load with half the bunks in the water and  half out.

More i think about it I'll put side bunks on the front as i use rivers a lot.

To bloody hot today to mess with it.

Oh to jump off the dock to the ramp at the water line is 4 feet down and a minimum of 3 feet wide...

Yep side bunks up front. If i can I'll limit the swing from 90 deg to 30 to 40 degrees. 

Something that has not been mentioned here is the bunk carpet. When you back in, back in far enough so that the entire bunk gets wet, and then go forward to the ideal loading position. The boat slides on a lot easier when the carpet is wet and helps prevent ripping.

 

I had this issue a couple times a few years ago until someone suggested this. I have not had any rips in the bunk carpet since. You can always go the carpet-less bunk board route too.

So your bunks are on a bracket that swivels, correct?

If so once your get the boat on there correctly tighten all those bolts up. They use those to use trailers for more than one boat model.

It's strange. Multiple swinging brackets. Can't lock them down but can limit there range. It will be cooler monday. It looks like i can now ratchet strap the front over. Flip one of the back brackets and remount. 

Thanks to all.

Now that I've looked it over it's not to bad. This is much different from last boat with self centering rollers and it was only 300 Lbs.

It's raining the river is fast, i have a least a week before it's calm enough to mess with ( Upper Potomac, lots of rocks, floating trees, houses, cars, docks, etc).

Thanks to all