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[Bass Bro]

I have a 14 foot fiberglass v hull boat,three seater.Heavy son of a gun!I have a trailer to haul it on but i was wondering something.If i go to a pond to fish and cant get my truck down to unload it,how am i going to get my boat in the water!?I was thinking about somehow putting some wheels on the very back of it and putting two handles on front to carry it by.Anybody ever done this or can give me some ideas how to do it?Where i can buy the stuff to do it?Thanks alot guys!

[rich64]

If you have a tilt trailer it could work

[Bass Bro]

no more help on this? :-/

[CFFF 1.5]

on shallow lakes without a lot of depth at the shore line, I would back my boat in as far as possible and then unhook the trailer from my truck and push it in the rest of the way with help from a friend and pull the trailer back out by hand. Now the tricky part was getting the boat back out. this is where you need a little muscle. we would hand push the trailer into the water and let the boat float on, then we would hook a toe rope up to the hitch on the truck and to the trailer and slowly pull the trailer out of the water while one of us held the trailer up by hand, once the trialer was far enough out to hook it back up the truck, we would rehitch and pull out. This works best with 4x4 and a hard bottom lake.

[Bass Bro]

well i was thinking of somehow putting a set of wheels on the back of the boat so i could roll it if i had to to the ponds i fish if my boat and trailer couldnt get down too it.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

All kinds of solutions.  If you watch the Lunkerville show we did this yr, you can see how we get ours out at the end.  Not sure if you can see it but down on the rocks, there is a board with wheels on it

or, go with something like this if you have level ground to work with.

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[Long Mike]

The best advice I can give is to get rid of the fiberglass boat and get an aluminum one.

[Wayne P.]

Here is your solution, it is called a boat dolly:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0029941017441a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH_all&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&Ntt=boat+dolly&Ntk=Products&sort=all&Go.y=10&_D%3AhasJS=+&N=0&_D%3Asort=+&Nty=1&hasJS=true&Go.x=14&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form1&_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1

[Grey Wolf]

The best advice I can give is to get rid of the fiberglass boat and get an aluminum one.

Now this is a great piece of advice!!!!!!!!!!!! That fiberglass boat you have got isn't made for what you want to do.

[Bass Bro]

well i have decided that i'm going to leave it at a lake near my home where i fish alot right there on the bank so all i have to do is push it in to the water!I hope to find me a cheap aluminum john boat or two man bass buddy boat.Thanks for the help guys

[Fishing Rhino]

Here's another option. Rolls very easily, and folds up for storage.

http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?page=heavy-duty-boat-cart&categoryId=34179&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&parentCategory=8331&cat4=5490&shop_method=pp&feat=8331-tn&np=Y

You need to consider the type of ground. This would not work well in soft sand or mud.

I've rolled it through the woods, over lumpy, bumpy, and semi-soft mossy ground without a hitch.

This rig includes an attached pump, just in case. Not bad for $99.00 plus any applicable tax and shipping. I like the wider stance. It's very stable and has never exhibited any tendency to tip its load to the side.