[quote=shortyfox]Now that's settled, I can work on more efficient trailering. Before I was in mast up storage, I was a big fan of having the boat on the trailer backwards. The big advantage of course was not having to carry a 6ft A frame ladder and set it up behind the boat. Even when tied, it still was a little precarious. But the one really bad thing about having the boat trailered backwards was draining the hulls. My boat is pretty watertight but I like to leave the ports open all the time to ventilate the hulls but some fresh water gets in. I can't always be around to screw the covers on the ports when rain comes. I used to (with the mast up) roll the boat back a few feet, put all my weight on the aft beam and as the boat tilted back, take up the slack with a piece of line tied to the beam and the trailer so the boat wouldn't roll backwards. I had a 5.7 back then and I couldn't do it if there was too much wind. I'm not concerned with point loading on the rollers because the G-Cat has deep V hulls. So to eliminate having to do that, I could every so often take the boat out frontwards, not forgetting to take my A frame ladder. I have too much time on my hands because and I obsess on this stuff.[/quote]
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