How to set up a boat trailer for a smooth and safe journey | Motor Boat & Yachting

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Keeping your boat on a towable road trailer allows you to explore destinations well away from your local boating area. It can also save you a small fortune on berthing fees provided you have somewhere sensible to store it. That just leaves the small matter of getting it to and from your chosen launch site. Our resident boating instructor Jon Mendez explains how to set up a boat trailer properly...
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5 окт 2024

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@duncanwallace5400 Год назад

Another top tip! Once you have attached your hitch to the towball, try to raise the nose of trailer again using the jockey wheel to make sure it has clamped on to the ball correctly.

@roryjackson6578 Год назад

Fantastic video! Great content and a reminder that we should all watch from time to time. Thank you.

@ETr4d3 Год назад

I load my boat with all the camping and fishing gear, cover the boat and use few straps on top.

@capt.anthony8169 Год назад

I was surprised to see the trailer hitch connection didn't have a set of chains! I'm in Canada, within North America its law to have a chain and hook on each side of the trailer neck, maybe 8" from the hitch, that connects to connection points on the truck. So if the trailer accidentally jumps off the hitch ball, you don't lose the trailer. I see the brake line, and fine, that's good. But that trailer will separate from your vehicle and go flying. The interesting thing about these chains, the important thing to know is that they have to crossed to maintain control.

@lelandnunez6945 4 месяца назад

I totally agree, there is i big difference between North America towing and where ever this was filmed. I was thinking “where are the safety chains?” and also thinking “that is so many straps to hold down a boat?” and the last thing was thinking was “why are they using a ford ranger to tow that much weight?”. North America uses big trucks, we use safety chains and don’t typically use that many straps for a boat (pulling forward and backward on winch ring) But i do think that that is a really nice trailer. And still dont understand the no safety chain and just throwing the safety brake cable over the hitch. Good video though!

@lukep1461 4 месяца назад

@@lelandnunez6945 Maybe it's because here in Europe there is a general inspection for cars and trailers every two years. This is the strictest in Europe in Germany. If your towing hitch is worn out, it will be replaced. Or you fail. The Ford Ranger can tow 3500kg. Enough for a boat like this. Here in Germany the motorways are so good that cars are allowed to drive at 300km/h (186 mph) or more, on unrestricted sections, as long as no one is endangered.

@jamesswampy Год назад

Bad showing the breakaway cable looped like that if DVSA spot that it a on the spot fine , it should be clipped to the towing vehicles chassis but if you look at most tow bars there is one or two holes for the clip to go through. The argument is that a looped cable has the chance of jumping off and also it has the possibility to get trapped and damaged in the ball

@lukep1461 4 месяца назад

In the Netherlands it is even mandatory to attach the rope to the vehicle and not just over the ball head. Or into a hole in the coupling if one exists.