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Every year I help a buddy launch his cat boat from his shallow beach.
The angle is so shallow that we have to back my truck to the waters edge then unhook trailer and push it backwards over the sandy bottom maybe 100' or at least most of that! We tie a rope to trailer so we can pull it back to shore once the boat finally floats off!
I wonder how our new max 4 with the Kawasaki 27 would like this job?
It's pretty shallow but maybe the max would float before the boat and we would still have to hand push the trailer?
Hmmm
I use my Argo to launch both my 16' Lund and my Seadoo. Quite honestly it doesn't work worth a damn. I also have a very sandy bottom to the lake, and a gradual slope in. The Argo starts to float long before the boat or the Seadoo, so I just back them in as far as I can untill I spin out. Then I wrestle the boat/seadoo off the trailer by hand. Then I either have to push the Argo, ot tow it forward enough to get traction to pull the trailer back out of the water.
You might ask why I do it this way at all?
It's the only way I can get the "floaties" into the water on each trip. Once I get them in the water, they stay in untill we leave the lake.
It's a PITA, but it's the only way I have to do it.
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