I have a question regarding boat launching. I have a shorelander trailer for my Alumacraft Navigator 175. My neighbor is in the marine and small engine repair business, and from day one he has told me to launch my boat without backing the wheels under water for the simple reason that I will not have to worry about repacking the wheel bearings every year. I have for the last two seasons taken his advice and have never had any problems. I sometimes fish on 3-4 different lakes in a day and I can see his point as far as the bearings go with the water seeping in (I do have bearing buddies) and washing the grease out. On a few occasions I have been scolded and cursed for not having the sense to "FLOAT THE BOAT" In my defense I could care less from the stand point that it takes us no more then 5 minutes to get the boat loaded from the time the trailer hits the landing, far less time then I am noticing others taking. My question is this......For those of you who back under water, how often do you have to repack your bearings? Do you at least have to do it after the season is over? It's not real bad cranking the boat on but if I backed up further it would be very simple. I ran this by the dealer I bought it from and he told me my neighbor was right. Any thoughts? Thanks!
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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I have a question regarding boat launching. I have a shorelander trailer for my Alumacraft Navigator 175. My neighbor is in the marine and small engine repair business, and from day one he has told me to launch my boat without backing the wheels under water for the simple reason that I will not have to worry about repacking the wheel bearings every year. I have for the last two seasons taken his advice and have never had any problems. I sometimes fish on 3-4 different lakes in a day and I can see his point as far as the bearings go with the water seeping in (I do have bearing buddies) and washing the grease out. On a few occasions I have been scolded and cursed for not having the sense to "FLOAT THE BOAT" In my defense I could care less from the stand point that it takes us no more then 5 minutes to get the boat loaded from the time the trailer hits the landing, far less time then I am noticing others taking. My question is this......For those of you who back under water, how often do you have to repack your bearings? Do you at least have to do it after the season is over? It's not real bad cranking the boat on but if I backed up further it would be very simple. I ran this by the dealer I bought it from and he told me my neighbor was right. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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