[1bayouboy]

I hope I can describe this right....
We put the trailer tongue on the ground, got the supports tight under the corners of the hull, then jacked up the tongue and put it on the hitch which lifted the corners off the trailer some. We used two pulleys on chains on either side of the axle and a cable long to hook on the front of the trailer, bacl through one pulley, back up through the bow eye, back throough the second pulley on the other side, then back to an electric winch we chained (it was on a plate). With the truck in neutral, powering the winch pulled the trailer out from under the boat. The multiple loops made the winching slow so you could winch a little and make sure the trailer/truck was moving forward instead of the boat being pushed back. We didn't have to do it, but you can also braced the boat at the stern to keep it from being pushed back.

Frankly I was terrified by the whole process, but a buddy of mine used to deliver and pickup boats in New Jersey and made it look easy. He said with roller trailers he could do some large boats solo. He must have had lots of practice because when I wwent back there with him I saw literally thousands of boats on stands.