Getting Boat off Trailer

[flyingd]

I have a 23' boat that I want to get off the trailer so that I can work on the trailer this winter. I can't just put it in the water, it freezes. How do I roll the trailer out from under the boat.

unfortunately I don't have a crane to help me out:D

Any ideas would be great. :pray:

Thanks

[Starfish]

I sure wouldn't just leave the boat on the ground... likely to damage the boat. If you really need to jack the boat off the trailer, you can use the trailer jack to alternately raise and lower the front and rear of the boat to jack it up but you still need some sort of cribbing to hold it. One option is to find somewhere with enough structure to hang it (or build a series of A frames to hang it) and then use multiple slings, again starting by lowering the jack at the front (to raise the stern) and set the stern sling, then raise the front and sling it, etc.

Good luck!

[Highmark]

Well there is go other way.You can put old tires out on the ground and
pull the trailer out from under the boat and let it sit on the tires. I have done this on smaller boats, but a friend of mine did this last summer to a 25 fter to work on his trailer. it's not hard to do. you just need help doing it.The winch needs to be in good shape to pull it back on the trailer.

HM

[jaxflyfish]

The wench needs to be in good shape to pull it back on the trailer.

HM

Nothing like a wench thats in good shape....I always say......arrrrrrrrrr

[Highmark]

Well we do need a good wench now and again..mate.

And I'm a chromer now !!

Nothing like a wench thats in good shape....I always say......arrrrrrrrrr

[KeHols]

I pulled my 20’ weld craft off onto bales of hay. I lined them up with the runners on the trailer and pulled the boat off with a winch.

Good luck

[gordy]

maybe put a shout out for the temporary use of a empty trailer. Should not be too hard to find someone who has a boat moored and has a empty trailer you can set your boat on for a short period of time.

[infinity]

There is a simple way that I have used but it always a little concerning. Make 3 box cradels out of 2x6's 18" long. Basically, cut the 2x6 into 18" lengths, place 2 flat and then 2 more in the other direction nailing each corner. Continue this alternating directions until you have reached the right height.

The right height is: lower the trailor tongue as low as possible, build up 2 cradels so that they will just fit under each corner of the boat. Raise the tongue of the trailor which will lift the rear of the boat off of the trailor. At this point you can slowly slide the trailor from under the boat......this will require a minimum of 2 people, one to stay on the tongue of the trailor. As the boat comes off the trailor place the third cradel under the keel. if possible it would be best to get the third cradel about 2/3 forward.

To put the boat back on the trailor: winch the trailor under the boat but be sure to keep someone on the tongue of the trailor.

The same process as using haybails.

[Highmark]

By using old tires and doing this the same way. It's a lot easer. and the
tires are lot more foregiving to bottom of the boat.

HM

There is a simple way that I have used but it always a little concerning. Make 3 box cradels out of 2x6's 18" long. Basically, cut the 2x6 into 18" lengths, place 2 flat and then 2 more in the other direction nailing each corner. Continue this alternating directions until you have reached the right height.

The right height is: lower the trailor tongue as low as possible, build up 2 cradels so that they will just fit under each corner of the boat. Raise the tongue of the trailor which will lift the rear of the boat off of the trailor. At this point you can slowly slide the trailor from under the boat......this will require a minimum of 2 people, one to stay on the tongue of the trailor. As the boat comes off the trailor place the third cradel under the keel. if possible it would be best to get the third cradel about 2/3 forward.

To put the boat back on the trailor: winch the trailor under the boat but be sure to keep someone on the tongue of the trailor.

The same process as using haybails.

[Boats]

Here is the wrong way to do it....
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/launch1.JPG

[rew]

Here is the wrong way to do it....
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/launch1.JPG

Is that Newport? Ouuuuch.

[Highmark]

One good thing. the engine was in the up position. :cool:
About 10 years back, down in chinook a lady was putting her better half
and the boat in the water.She just did not stop, the boat, trailer and a vary new Chevy 4x4 all right in till there was nothing showing. when she swam out of it, she asked her husband is that far enough. I about fell out of my boat, with that comment from her. Well that plugged the ram that morning :)

HM


Is that Newport? Ouuuuch.

[baitsauce]

Here is the wrong way to do it....
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/launch1.JPG


Is that Newport? Ouuuuch.


That looks like it's above the high tide mark, so simply waiting for the tide to come in won't do any good. And it's a glass boat too!

Ouch is right!!! But I don't believe it's Newport unless it has grown Palm trees since I've been there last. :D

[eagle1]

Used some old tires and put dawn soap on the runners and slowly pull the boat off. Have a beer. Sand trailer,have two beers,Paint trailer and have a coke.Place dawn on trailer runners and winch boat onto trailer and have 2 beers.Go fishing.:)


Eagle1

[stream]

Forklift with carpet on the forks works real well but you have to rent a forklift and block up the boat with lumber