Trailer adjustment advice---need help please.
Bought a 1959 StarCraft boat with a home-altered 1973 trailer. Bought it from my neighbor (didn't know him well at the time). His fishing buddy had passed away and he has back and leg nerve problems so severe he cannot use it himself. Promised him when I bought it that I would take him out in it.
Five years later....we are great friends, wonderful neighbors, and serious fishing buddies. He cannot walk down the ramps, so he has to be in the boat when we launch. He cannot pull the start rope on the engine to help propel boat off the trailer. I cannot hit brakes hard as that will trigger excruciating pain for him that will take days and lots of meds for him to recover. I also take a ladder with us for him to get into boat at top of ramp while still on level ground.
I usually have to wade almost chest deep in water after backing my rear tires to the very edge of water. Always scared I will go too far, hit the algae and slide my truck into the water. I have to push and pull on the bow to eventually get enough buoyancy to push it away....flip the rope over the trailer lights and pull him over to the floating dock.
What adjustments can I make to make the boat come off the trailer more easily? Bunk bolts are positioned so that I can only lower them about an inch on the ones closer to the bow. The bunk bolts near the stern are already bottomed. Any suggestions would be appreciated.