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dockholiday
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#16 Post by dockholiday » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:32 pm

Yep good guides are the trick. On my two log they were on the outside and on the tritoon they are on the inside, which I don't like as well so now, I just concentrate on centering the boat on the stop bunks. No miscues yet but much more awkward than the two log trailer.
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#17 Post by Ranger23 » Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:15 pm

I usually back in the trailer just where the rear wheels of my truck get wet. This gives me enough "dry" space on the trailer to help my boat line up (so as not to float all over the place).
In the wind, I just use a little more juice to keep it straight.
I'm going to sound like a broken record, but like everyone else said, "Practice, Practice, Practice."
Oh ya...and patience and confidence.
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#18 Post by Lunker » Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:59 pm

Its not too bad if there is no pressure on you. If its not calm out it takes me a few tries but I have only loaded it 3 times so far. Boats goes in for the season and then out that is it.

I dig get into it this year with this hillbilly when I was pulling my barge out of the season who asked me "how much longer" I was gonna be. I told him if he asked me that again I was gonna knock his teeth out. Needless to say he went back in his truck to hide.
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#19 Post by margaritaman » Wed Dec 07, 2011 1:08 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: Good answer!
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#20 Post by wwind3 » Wed Dec 07, 2011 1:56 pm

Something that helps me. I put a piece of duct tape on the front fence directly above the centerline of the right toon. Then I can line the rt toon up over the rt boards--works pretty good. You have to lean far enough rt in your helm seat so that your eyeline lines up with the tape and the boards.

Anything will work that acts as a sight on the fence-magic marker etc.
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