What are these guys thinking?!

[scrutch]

Was reading a thread on another board (BBC) and couple of those guys actually think that it's a good idea to spray chemicals like clorox bathroom cleaner with teflon or Liquid wrench silicon lubricant on their bunks so the boat will slide better when loading. 

Am I a complete baffoon or is it a terrible idea to introduce those chemicals into the very water that we work so hard to protect!   One guy posted that he's "been doing that for years"!!!!! 

I've always just backed the trailer into the water until the bunks are wet so the boat slides up the trailer better.  NEVER had a problem.

ADDING HARSH CHEMICALS seems like a complete lack of common sense to me.

Ok. My rant is over now.

[Sam]

Makes no sense to me.

I do not know of anyone who does what those guys do.

Just back the trailer int to the water at the ramp and power the boat onto it. Very easy to do.

I don't understand why they do what they do and wold love to hear their explanation.  >

[Wayne P.]

I know guys that treat their trailer bunks with silicone spray to lessen the boat-frozen-to-trailer occurrence when fishing in the winter.

The amont of "chemicals" used for those applications is zero in comparison to what your outboard puts in the water.

[slonezp]

Makes no sense to me.

I do not know of anyone who does what those guys do.

Just back the trailer int to the water at the ramp and power the boat onto it. Very easy to do.

I don't understand why they do what they do and wold love to hear their explanation. >

Stop making sense. First thing I thought of is how many times I've seen boats left in the gravel by guys that have roller trailers. Really screws up things at the ramp.

[Redlinerobert]

I've been a boater for 10+ years and have never had any issues.  This makes zero sense to me as well. "Advice" like that is why I don't visit that site.

[northern basser]

This reminds me of something I encountered a few years back that is even more alarming.

Some friends and I went on a duck hunting trip to Arkansas to hunt the flooded timbers.  While there we were visiting with some local hunters that were maybe 20 something years old. 

The permanent blinds in a lot these places were passed down through generations we were told by them.  Then they proceeded to comment about how tough the laws were these days.   They said they used to use a defoiliating chemical like agent orange to clear out the spots where the blinds would be built.  They "couldn't understand what was wrong" with this practice?

[Jeff H]

Seems rather odd to me.  I've never had problems getting boat on trailer with wet bunks.