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[Capitch]

Seeking some  advice



I recently purchased a  04 4-TEC, and I have taken it out twice. On my second outing, I had a little trouble lining the boat up with the trailer.

I was searching for the best products to assist with loading and unloading. Some type of guide ons or rollers guides.  Any suggestions, I have the catalogs to West Marine and Overtons, but there are alot of choices. My trailer came with the boat.

Capitch

[tiggerman]

Welcome to the board.....

Try these:
http://www.overton.c...&item_num=72478

They work nicely on other boat trailers I have seen.

[stevenh]

Capitch, on May 9 2005, 03:22 PM, said:

Seeking some  advice



I recently purchased a  04 4-TEC, and I have taken it out twice. On my second outing, I had a little trouble lining the boat up with the trailer.

I was searching for the best products to assist with loading and unloading. Some type of guide ons or rollers guides.  Any suggestions, I have the catalogs to West Marine and Overtons, but there are alot of choices. My trailer came with the boat.

Capitch

I had that boat for two years, and it pulls up real easy even if the trailer is not in too deep.  Get the bunks wet and don't back the trailer in much as far as you currently are.  Use the crank to bring the boat onto the trailer and it will center really nice.  The only time I had problems was when I put the trailer in too deep.
If I remember right, I would back up until the wheels were just submerged then crank the boat up.

Steve

[keviseeb]

We have a simple rule that works well for the entire Seadoo line using the Karavan trailers that are shipped with the boats except for the Challenger 180. When offloading your jet boat submerge the trailer fenders slightly. When onloading the boat leave about 2" of the trailer fenders showing above water and power the boat right up to the winch stand. This works for most standard ramps, if the ramp is shallow you need to put the trailer deeper in the water. If it is a steep ramp get the bunks wet and plan on using your winch for the final 2 feet. For the Challenger 180 the trailer needs to be slightly deeper in the water but otherwise doing it the same way as above. Hope that helps.

[Capitch]

tiggerman, on May 9 2005, 03:45 PM, said:

Welcome to the board.....

Try these:
http://www.overton.c...&item_num=72478

They work nicely on other boat trailers I have seen.

Thanks for your advice, I purchased the guide ons from Overton's last week.

[jpeezy]

keviseeb, on May 10 2005, 02:09 PM, said:

We have a simple rule that works well for the entire Seadoo line using the Karavan trailers that are shipped with the boats except for the Challenger 180. When offloading your jet boat submerge the trailer fenders slightly. When onloading the boat leave about 2" of the trailer fenders showing above water and power the boat right up to the winch stand. This works for most standard ramps, if the ramp is shallow you need to put the trailer deeper in the water. If it is a steep ramp get the bunks wet and plan on using your winch for the final 2 feet. For the Challenger 180 the trailer needs to be slightly deeper in the water but otherwise doing it the same way as above. Hope that helps.

Thanks Kevin!  I tried it and I can drive my speedster200 right up to the rollers.  You have to be careful that you ease it up the last few inches or you can squash the rollers and scratch the front of the boat on the embedded washers.  Otherwise, it' makes loading a snap.

Sure beats winching up.

jpeezy

[stevenh]

jpeezy, on Jun 23 2005, 09:29 PM, said:

keviseeb, on May 10 2005, 02:09 PM, said:

We have a simple rule that works well for the entire Seadoo line using the Karavan trailers that are shipped with the boats except for the Challenger 180. When offloading your jet boat submerge the trailer fenders slightly. When onloading the boat leave about 2" of the trailer fenders showing above water and power the boat right up to the winch stand. This works for most standard ramps, if the ramp is shallow you need to put the trailer deeper in the water. If it is a steep ramp get the bunks wet and plan on using your winch for the final 2 feet. For the Challenger 180 the trailer needs to be slightly deeper in the water but otherwise doing it the same way as above. Hope that helps.

Thanks Kevin!  I tried it and I can drive my speedster200 right up to the rollers.  You have to be careful that you ease it up the last few inches or you can squash the rollers and scratch the front of the boat on the embedded washers.  Otherwise, it' makes loading a snap.

Sure beats winching up.

jpeezy

That's what I have done my last couple of outings as well (power up the trailer).  The boat pushes itself up nicely and it is always dead center.  I crank the last foot or so.

Steve

[thumper]

cant power up the trailer here to much stuff on the ramp to suck up the intake - as its only 18 deep on trailer - have to winch about last 4 feet - alwasy keep a spare winch cable and hook in the truck - had one snap on me a few yaers back - the ramp was fairly steep with roller coaster trailer and a 3 tonne boat it was like lauching the qe2     in reverse