Ha. Sorry Jim. I got the kids out the door and went straight to work on the boat.
I spent the better part of three hours trying to get the boat on the trailer. Road block after road block slowed what should have been about an hour job. First it was the casters on the cradle sinking into the asphalt drive way. That stopped me from getting the boat all the way out of the garage to then turn it 180 degrees. About three feet were left inside. Remember, the boat is nose first in the garage so sliding it onto the trailer off the cradle wasn't an option. Ok, I'll just take the trailer nose first into the garage a bit, slide it under the boat and set it down. Nope..... the door on this garage is 8' wide before the trim. The boat fits but not the trailer so maneuvering the trailer under wasn't going to be as simple as parallel parking. I had an engine hoist on the front on the boat. That was fine as i was able to get the clearance to get the trailer under it. But again, there wasn't enough room with the hoist to get in far enough to get clearance for the fenders. At the back of the boat i had a pretty big car jack with some cribbing and some carpet to help with scratching the hull. The problem with the Jack was i wasn't comfortable going as high as i needed to with multiple layers of cribbing on top of a 6" Jack pad to clear the fenders. It became less and less stable the higher it got. I only needed a few inches. Ok, let the air out if the tires, some strapping around a deck post, a come along and i was able to drag the trailer under the boat. Ok, the somewhat sketchy parts are done and the boat is on the trailer. Now i have a boat on a trailer at the bottom of my 90' driveway that has a slight slop towards the garage with no way to hook up to a vehicle..... yay.....I ended up pushing the trailer/ boat up the driveway to the end if the porch, about 25' short of the sidewalk. At that point i needed to turn the boat around to be able to hook up to it. The driveway is only about 12 feet wide there. I tried a few different things to move the trailer on the grass. Two words..... tandems suck in this circumstance. I eventually pulled the rear set of wheels and that made a significant difference. The boat is on the trailer, all the wheels are installed and inflated and the trailer is facing the right direction. Oh and for about 15 minutes i thought that i lost the center post for the windshield...... kind of important.....i had a short discussion with Maggie about how long ago i took that thing off and how i would have put it in a good easy to find logical spot. Because those easy to find spots don't move in two years. I ended up finding it out with some random parts no where near where i had the windshield. Well the was also installed. The punch list for things to do is finally in my favor.
Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk