Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

Tried scanning some pics my sister ended up taking of me placing the toon on the trailer but the darn scanner is not working. Anyway I wanted to know if I am placing my trailer to far in as the back of the guide on bunks are slightly in the water. Are they suppose to be? On a couple of occasions I have been riding on the left bunk before it corrects itself. This has resulted in one tear in the bunk carpet which I repaired but once again this past weekend I marked it again with out tearing it. For the ones that have bunk guide on for your trailers do you actually back your in until water is slight on top of the bunk? Damn hard to explain without pics.

Never mind the scanner I took a pic of the pic Poor quality but better then nothing. Okay am I backing in to far. Remember no issues loading except for riding on the top of the left bunk. Left meaning pontoon facing trailer. Look forward to your replies.

If it were me doing it, I would have the trailer back in the water more than you have it, so I would say compared to the way I do it you're not in far enough. It mostly comes down to the ramp you're at, how steep it is, how far back it goes, etc... I've also seen quite a few people afraid to go back far enough and they either end up revving their engines to max trying to get the boat on the trailer, or about ripping the hook off the front trying to drag the boat up onto the trailer with the winch.

When I launch my pontoon, my bunks go completely under water, and the back tires of my 4-runner are about 2 feet back into the water.

When I put it back on the trailer, I first back the bunks all the way under to get them wet, and then pull back out so about 1 foot length of the front of the bunks are out of the water. This leaves my rear tires of my 4-runner either right at or just in front of the water line.

Everyone has their own ways to do it, but in my opinion, there should be little effort by either the engine or the winch to get the boat all the way up on the trailer, that's how you know you're back far enough.

We sink about a foot more