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Power Boating, Trailering Your Boat, Show Me How Videos

Power Boating, Trailering Your Boat Let Us Show You How IN THIS VIDEO YOU WILL LEARN • Number one reason boats sink at the ramp • Roller trailers vs. Bunk trailers • Four main hitch and trailer components • Tongue weight defined • Motor position when trailering • The proper way to attach safety chains • How to secure you boat on the trailer • The easy way to back up your trailer • How close your vehicle should get to the water • What to disconnect before entering the water • How to launch and retrieve safely • How to stay legal on the road • Useful maintenance tips Your Host: Taylor Lawson Taylor Lawson has been working as a professional captain since 1997 when he obtained his first United States Coast Guard license in San Francisco, California. Currently, he makes a living running and delivering motor yachts around the world and training individuals on how to operate their private boats. A native of Annapolis, MD, he spent his childhood boating with his family from the age of seven. During the summers, he attended sailing school where he gained great insight to the art of close-quarters boat handling. While attending St. Mary’s College of Maryland he raced dinghies on their nationally ranked sailing team and continued in competitive racing circuits after college. While living in Monterey California he was encouraged by an entrepreneur to get a captain’s license and thereafter, run a local sailing charter boat. After California, he moved to the Caribbean where he ran a

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25 Responses to "Power Boating, Trailering Your Boat, Show Me How Videos"

  1. MrDr8ke says:

    Dude you are doing it way to slow. un hook it from the bow, get in, lower the transom, get in the water and start it up then just back it off and the trailer is going up to park and the next 10 people in line can have their turn

  2. MrDr8ke says:

    @sexycummins I agree with one add-on.. once in the water start it up add back off way you got control just in case thw boat does’nt start. almost happened to me where i drifted into another boat before it started

  3. iampeeay01 says:

    cool video… thanks for sharing… :)

  4. phantompanic says:

    I also use the DIGINAV system as a backup chartplotter…

  5. wellmanj says:

    There oughta be bleachers and they could charge admission at every public boat ramp. I’d pay good money to watch the comedy that goes on at boat ramps.

  6. truepyro28 says:

    @Justin881000 some lakes aren’t deep enough so you have to back you vehicle in. not a problem in fresh water lakes though

  7. GoDxPunisher says:

    hello?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? as long as ur car is running when the exhaust is submerged water will not go iinto the exhaust and turn off the car

  8. sexycummins says:

    Lol, this is the worst shit I’ve ever seen. First off unhook everything.The guy with the ropes should be in the boat. Back the thing down in the water hit the brakes and the boat will float off. Start the boat, float it around till the person parking the trailer gets back down there, pull up and pick them up. Now you just kept from pissing everyone off waiting on you. Now go do 12oz curls all day;)

  9. TheBringback says:

    My 25 foot cobalt has to go wat deeper in the water

  10. ccexped says:

    @showmehowvideos -i don’t know about everything else you said but i am pretty sure your trailer would drop off the ramp before your truck does.

  11. TheHsack says:

    why dont u just hop in the boatt and when ur in deep enough he can tap the brakes you will slide in to the water start the motor and drive around till he comes back from parking the car

  12. dogbyte555 says:

    @showmehowvideos Has this ever actually happened? Mythbusters tried shoving everything
    from potatoes to bananas in a car tailpipe, and the car still started. It just blew the potato out.

  13. seisboca says:

    ta loco nao é mais facil colocar um dentro do barco e dar a ré do que fazer essa besteira toda ta loucooo isso que é pais de 1 mundo aqui no 3 mundo estamos na frente no quisito sabedoria em navegacao

  14. etrade92 says:

    great video, but sorry I’ve yet to see a launch where the vehicle doesn’t at least touch the water a little bit.lol dont think its gonna hurt it too bad

  15. Boatboy6 says:

    would not want to behind this guy at the ramp

  16. fire115269 says:

    You suck man you drive the boat off and don’t take so long, your the reason everyone is waiting please don’t ever don’t this again

  17. nimalitharushe says:

    I am a cool and easygoing woman naneedj.info

  18. Fishinboating says:

    how big is the boat in (M)?

  19. irokee25 says:

    Boat Show in Barcelona

    If you visit Barcelona and want to spend little, have a hostel from to 45 minutes by train to the city center and 50 minutes from Gerona airport

    budget in irokee25@yahoo.es

  20. cbwein333 says:

    @showmehowvideos not true my family has a 40′ rinker and that gets launched by the marina. our waverunner we launch like a boat tire little bit in water but since my grandparents dock got demolished in a storm only the waverunner is in the water. but he put the tire in the water and easily got out

  21. slapoutz says:

    @showmehowvideos ya i saw a 2wd truck almost get stuck without the boat on the trailer last weekend, but then the ramp had almost no incline so he had to pull into the water which happened to be mud not pavement.

  22. broncos167 says:

    R u gay

  23. MrJAN21 says:

    I BEEN LANCHING BOATS SINCE I WAS 13 AND MY LARGEST LANCH WAS 40 FOOT BOAT JUST LIKE IN THIS VIDEO AND RETRIVING TOO

  24. FordGuy132 says:

    How light is the boat? must be pretty light if that useless GM could trailer it!

  25. DaMossBergBoss says:

    no need to worry about getting ur back tires wet ur truck is a 4wheel drive, I’ve seen a 4wheel drive Nissan Xterra tow a 28foot 8,000pound Mako from his house to the ramp and then he pulled it out and guess what? his back wheels were in the water.. Not trying to sound like a Jackass tho

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