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Old 07-27-2008, 01:00 AM   #21

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I have an open bow deck boat with bunkers, 12 volt electric wench, and trailer with boat guides. When launching my boat I will back trailer into water just covering the lights. I will climb over bow of boat with dock line tied to a front cleat. Lower stern drive and start engine until tempature reaches 150% or better. Shut off engine and climb back over bow holding dock line. I tie line to ball of trailer. Release safety chain and wench. Back trailer deeper until seeing boat lifts alittle off bunkers. Untie line from trailer back away. When returning, the trailer is submerged all the way in and pulled out to get bunkers fully wet and fenders are halfway showing. I pull the boat on until boat gets hung up on bunkers. Climb over bow onto trailer holding dock line on cleat again. I will place wench line snap into boat retriever pole and power boat onto trailer. No sweet at all. Doesn't matter how shallow the water is,and no sore arms.
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  • Old 07-27-2008, 01:04 AM   #22

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    http://www.boatretriever.com/cart.cfm
    Here is picture of the Boat Retriever Pole and Snap

    http://www.jcwhitney.com/webapp/wcs/...atalogId=10101
    Here is a picture of 12 Volt Boat Winch

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