Talk about a bad day......

C YENSEN

C YENSEN

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My buddy has a 21' wellcraft cuddy and it was stuck in the marina with a bad starter. So me and him and another buddy put my boat in Sunday morning at 9:30 and went to tow his to the ramp. Got to the marina, hooked his up and towed it to the ramp a mile away. Everything went well so far, just a slow tow in 25 mph winds gusting to 35. But no real problems. Got them to the ramp loaded his with no problem, then tried to load mine. Well that is where the day went to hell. Got mine halfway up and realized a couple of the teeth on the winch were worn off >:( so it would go so far and stop and we pryed the wheel around to get to the good teeth and kept going. This lasted for what seemed and hour. We could only get it to within 2 feet of the front post. >:( So we pulled it out and hooked my buddy's truck to the bow eye and also using a come along we got it all the way on. another hour later. So I dropped my boat and i get a call the other boat lost a bearing on his trailer. so we go and take wheel off secure the axle, and the other tire on the bad side goes flat :'( Take that tire off and replace it with the spare and tow it 3 miles at 10 mph to the boat lot. finally got home at 3:30.

Ever have a day where everything you touch breaks? :-/
 
Been there, done that. As I see it, you all had a good day. No damage to person or property...just some inconvenience and the need to replace gear that was due for service anyway.

See, it ain't so bad now ;D

By the way...our Tog / Bass trip will be postponed to at least the 3rd week of January...I'll be in Costa Rica and Vegas till then ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :P :P :P :P
 
Bad Sh!t happens to good people every day brother, Mr. Murphy and I are on intimate terms :-/
You made it thru though and no one got hurt, thats a good day ;)
 
Its just the trailer's way of being jealous towards a wet slip.

Trailers have feelings too ya know ;D
;D
 
pearch, you can only describe that as a "pilgrimage".
Lesser men would have cut everything loose and left it to the roadside, good going. ;D
 
This all sounds too familiar. Care if I divulge? My dad owned a 23 foot Formula Center console that just became too much to handle for our short trips out in to the DE bay. Well after some thought he decided to sell it. A few weeks go by and finally a serious interest came about and he wanted to go for a sea trial. During the last trip and the time this potential buyer noticed the boat we had done some maintenance on the I/O which included taking the prop off and doing some cleaning as well as removing all the electronics for the winter. So the morning of the trial comes and we go to the Delaware City public ramp and put in. Everything is fine as we back up and go through the no-wake zone they have there. We get about a 1/4 mile out and in to the bay and my dad decides to power up the 454 to show the gent what she had. As he powers up we hear the prop slipping and know that something is wrong. My dad pulls back and we come to idle and shut down. We started drifting towards the hard stuff in the mean time I set the anchor. Turns out after all the outdrive maint. my dad din't put in a key peace of the prop assembly. I think it is called the thrust berring. So we were dead on the water w/ no radio. After calling the local fire dept. and waiting an hour or so 2 rescue boats come out tie us up and bring us in. My dad manages to talk the guy in to a second try after we get the berring assembly put back together. On the way home we are at a stop light and someone knocks on the driver's window. The guy proceeds to say that we are about to lose one of our trailer's wheels. We pull in to a parking lot and about 4 hours later it is fixed and we are on the way home. My dad finds the thrust berring and installs it. Long story short the guy bought the boat the next day. Sorry for the highjack.
 
Luckily no. The cauder pin saved the day. We were baffled though that w/o the thrust berring the prop was able to back us out of the ramp and about a 1/4 mile up the creek and in to the bay.
 
Trailers can be tons O' fun. I totally replaced all the running gear on mine before I towed... brakes, hubs, coupler, lines, springs... and every nut, bolt and bushing too! I knew the wobble roller harware needed some attention but I wanted to start using the boat so I was replacing the clips and washer piecemeal. The first half dozen launches or so a roller or two would depart from the trailer. "Roller Diving" became a competion of sorts for the kids. I'd give 'em $5 for each recovery. In the end I wound up only having to buy two new rollers, but they must have found at least two dozen rollers that didn't belong to me!

All I can say is... "Ah feal yah payne" . But since I didn't read where you got stuck in a snowbank or broke your windshield wiper off trying to get it unstuck from your windshield it can't be all bad.
 
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