Thread: New boat pics

nice rig!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like it, I like it all.

I have been launching and loading boats on a trailer for 35+ years and I have never once had to walk down the sides or the middle of my trailer for anything. The cat walk looks cool as all get out but I swear I don't how they would be used. Somebody splain it for me. Nice rig!

Originally Posted by yikess

I have been launching and loading boats on a trailer for 35+ years and I have never once had to walk down the sides or the middle of my trailer for anything. The cat walk looks cool as all get out but I swear I don't how they would be used. Somebody splain it for me. Nice rig!

As you mentioned, the catwalk down the middle is pretty much useless. I think it is for people that don't back far enough into the water and have to push their boat off the trailer. The catwalk around the outside, now that's a different story. That one is as useful as a pocket on a shirt for loading and unloading. When the boat is on the trailer you can just step up on it and reach things, or step over into the boat.

Oh okay, so they are used more when the boat is in the garage or parking lot getting ready to go. They are like the steps on my fenders but extened all the way around. Cool.

Catwalk down the middle - At Grenada, that'd be nice, expecially with water this low. Lot of folks drive out to creeks and dump their boats off in a creek or drop off. The hitch is, it don't take much lake bottom mud or too much boat or not enough truck to get stuck. With a catwalk, you can just wet the back of the hull, climb on the trailer and push the boat off. The catwalk gives you better foot hold to push it off. And a place to walk back up when retrieving. With a 14' boat and the right angle, you don't even have to wet the trailer tires.....now, with this boat...you better have a bunch of truck, or some good ground under it if you tried that, but that's the basic purpose I see.

The runners though...I want 'em. I keep a 2 step ladder beside my boat at home because you can't climb up and over it except at the axles without it.

Wannabe...

Nice, real nice.....

good looking rig, got one comming myself with 115 yam. wondering how it handles and speed?