The answer to Marine Growth

[Larryrsf]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Larry, given your age, I don't know your physical strength or general overall health. But most of us just slide the boat off the trailer onto concrete blocks. Paint it and then back the trailer back under the bow and winch it back onto the trailer.

By the way, you can buy plastic sliders for the tops of your bunks that will make launching and retrieving your boat much easier. Available on eBay in many sizes and materials. This is just one link:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/48-x-3-NEW-B...089d56&vxp=mtr

I remember that Reelapeelin painted his boat a few years back and he posted pictures of the process. Do a search and I'm sure you'll find it.

Love it! Thanks! The company that rebuilt my trailer and installed new bunks could only suggest "garbage bags" as covers to save my new bunks from marine growth. I will buy enough of this stuff to cover my bunks!

I will definitely cover my bunks with that plastic or teflon stuff, then load the boat and haul it somewhere for bottom cleaning and painting. If at the end of the season, I will do that job where the trailer is now (see the photos).

I read everyone's suggestions for painting a boat on a trailer and I like this best:

"blockin' it up off the trailer is the only way to get to the rest...I let the tongue all the way down, then blocked up the center of the stern...then raised the tongue, which lifts the stern after it bottoms out on the blocks...w/the tongue up, block up the bow, drop the tongue again and VOILA!...she's flyin'!!...stiff leg the sides...jack and block again as the axles go out from under and never had to tie it off at all...the trailer jack does the work"

Larry