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Hmmmm since a few people are doing the tyre method i might try and give that a go, main problem is my car can't fit sideways but I've got one of those motorised jockey wheels so I'll see if that's enough to pull the trailer off from under the boat...

oops sorry @frankS I think I misread your message. what I meant was, would I be able to use the gantry at your place but I think you meant to borrow the gantry and reassemble at my place..

@noelm thanks but I might not be able to do that at my place.. i have a relatively shallow front yard and where I was planning to put the boat is horizontally across, and I don't have the luxury of a wide frontage that'll fit the car, trailer and the boat sideways, at best it'll fit the length of the boat and trailer, meaning the trailer needs to be pulled out by hand... I can potentially do this at my parents place but that means the boat will be blocking their garage which they won't be happy about... also one of the things i need to do is change the trailer skids to rollers. At the moment it's sitting on wooden sleds wrapped in offcut carpet (i'm not sure if it's a previous owner thing or the fact the trailer was made in the 80's thing)... cos with the sleds as is, I literally cant even winch the boat onto the trailer unless it was completely boyant in water, there's just way too much friction... hence that was one of the few things I wanted to address with the trailer... omg @frankS can I take you up on your offer? The ideal solution for me would be to find a time that's not too inconvenient to you and I keep the boat on the gantry whilst I get the trailer done.. so I just need to make sure i have all the parts/welder etc all ready to go so they can all be done in one go and minimize gantry-use time...

Hi guys, my boat trailer is in need of some maintenance and whilst I can easily tend to those, getting & keeping the boat off the trailer is the hard part.. I've got a 6m fiberglass hull inboard, relatively small boat that's about 750kgs total weight... but sufficiently heavy that it can't just be manhandled off the trailer.... Has anyone got any experience or great tips about the best and most economic way to get the boat off it? and what kind of equipment would you need? I'm thinking along the lines of hiring 2 hydraulic engine cranes, one nylon strapped to the bow tow ring and another to the rear transom rings and gently lift it off the trailer, pull trailer away and drop the boat onto the grassy front yard... assuming it only needs to be off for a few days or a couple of weekends tops... it still sounds like a very stupid idea to me so I'm really hoping someone else has figured out a much better way to do this and willing to share - or even better, offer to help with

probably wasnt me... my moment was a while back (last year)... re #3 I'm always worried about theft like that... I always lock my towball receiver but there are plenty of things on a trailer that can be just simply unbolted.. like jockey wheels and winches, yes it's petty but all of those are worth money.. considering a winch with a good nylon webbing costs a few hundred bucks relative to say an old rusted winch on last strands of non-stainless steel cables.. and tbh even if I locked my towball receiver, it's pretty damn easy for someone doing a "trailer swap" to just unbolt the whole damn receiver from my trailer's drawbar and swap their own receiver onto it.. nothing is sacred anymore these days....how does anyone even secure against that? Only thing I can think of is like a permanent rear-facing dashcam but even then, they might just wear a mask and park their car sideways and you'll never catch a face of a plate...

yes I know this post is +10yrs old but damn i wish I had read this earlier... I was one of those noobs providing said sunday arvo entertainment... but on a Saturday....

Hi everyone from Sydney (Ryde area)! thanks for the add!... I'm pretty new to boating/fishing and a bit of googling have seen a few of my questions answered by members here so I'm very keen to learn from other experienced boaters.If anyone's from around the Ryde area and is keen and able to help out a noob please let me know