SO, last summer I was given this boat. When I say given I mean I was promised one thing and got the other. The original trailer literally tried its best to punch it's way thru the rear of my truck. Leaving me with a very confused face being the it took such and effort to retrieve. It took my truck and another to pull.
So after YANKING THE HELL out of it I figured it was good to go and go it did! It stove in my rear like a monkey with a stick as soon as it hit tar. Having towed trailers my entire life and have never even seen a jump off, I figured "1 off" then it did it again and again. Kinda like a hammer hitting concert. Like John Henry and his hammer to my poor truck. It was alarming and disturbing each time.
Finally get it put together enough to roll and NOT jump off. I got it to my road off 302 and as soon as the trailer off came off the tar it folded like toilet paper. Multiple points of broken, would not be able to save it with ten feet of new trailer as the ENTIRE rear of the trail split like an avocado, dropping the boat like it's seed right in the middle of the jump off to my road, so it's not a slow spot in the road. Quite the opposite, so everything had to be done finger snapping fast.
Well I had to pull it after determining it's fallen apart like a drunk prom date, right on the tires and all I could do was just engage 4x4 and leave a marching line from the start of the gravel street to my very door! My truck needs a new rear end like a Kardashian's wish list. The trailer was for a small probably aluminum. And this is a 19ft cuddy. So "Skqwish" would just not do it justice.
When we got to the tire shop, right after purchasing, less than a quarter mile away, the damage was done. My rear looked like a 50 year old hookers rear end. When the trailer literally crumbled out from under it. Dropping the boat and all. I thought it was over but had to get it home. Also the next day it had to be parked so that it was dealable, but the trailer split so much, I was afraid of punchers pulling into it with pointy metal on the trailer, I hammered off the point, added a slide taking careful care to get it off the trailer. Halfway through all this we are hot swapping tow rigs and just yanked it out, AFTER PROTECTING the hull from the old trailer. I just pulled and it came out like jelly in a PBJ. Dropping the boat like a giraffe on the Savannah.
I got rid of that trailer to a farmer. So that trailer is gone, after a light amount of gel coat on my all sand lawn pulling ( needed 3 different 4x4) and I got it around the lawn obstacle course and now have it at least pointed the correct way with very minimal surface lost during its movement across my lawn.
Now I swear hand on whatever tickles you! That it's still sound and worth me having a new trailer for the boat. The question is: Can you help? I pulled the boat around with a 4x4. BUT! The actuality of getting it on the next trailer crumbled when my winch gave it up and wouldn't pull it up on the trailer. SO can you help me? I need to get the boat on the trailer, probably not when it's full of water and snow, so looking at it the next time there is no snow lol. I know it seems weird, but I didn't want to move it after the snow fell because all the added weight froze. Water froze my tarp to the carpet, I know a good amount about boats, so it's worth it to me to get this land boat back to a state that is on the trailer!.
Tldr: my 4x4 and whiny tiny winch won't do the job of getting a boat on a trailer. Haha