[Trey1096]

When I take my boat off of the trailer, I lower the tongue and make a center rear support with (3) 12” blocks plus a 16” long 2x10 block on top as a bearing surface and a similar support at each corner. I then jack up the tongue until the rear starts to rise off the bunks. Then I do the “set/lift/move trailer/lower/move jack..” until the trailer can move all of the way out. It usually takes three times to get the trailer completely out.

When I’m done, there is a centerline support about 1’ forward of the transom, a centerline support about 3’ aft of the point where the keel starts to curve upward, and a support on each side just forward of where the scuppers exit. I’ll then wedge a 2x8 between the ground and the hull on each side around mid-ship.

It’s high enough to let the engines all of the way down. Like Fr. Frank, I’ll shake the boat pretty hard to make sure it isn’t going anywhere. Even then, I try to limit my time under the boat and I walk gingerly when I’m in it.

I’ve thought about getting some sort of frame, like Stick got from Harbor Freight, so I could just lift the bow and roll the trailer out in a single move.

Abl, do you have guideposts on the rear of the trailer that would have to pass under the hoist beam? It sounds like you’re trying to push the bow up from below, rather than pulling it up from above, right?

Trey