smokeonthewater
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Since I started using the Monte Carlo I have been power loading it..... I KNOW I shouldn't be and I have tried to use as much inertia as possible but it has always taken LOTS of throttle for half a second to get it to the bow roller.... I couldn't winch it on (I have a big winch and I tried) and I couldn't back in any deeper without dropping off the ramp.... I was doing a bad thing and I knew it.... what can I say... guilty!
So I have known about the virtue of bunk slicks and have steered many people toward them but I never actually used them myself..... I have intended to add them to my trailer but I haven't had the money to get them.... I figured I needed a LOT of them to do the over 40 feet of bunks on my trailer and that was gonna be pricey..... Well today I was looking at the 8x10" piece of 3/4" teflon I had left over from making a spacer for the windlass and at the 3/4" gap between the hull and the front of my center bunks..... I ripped it into two 4x10" pieces and drilled 4 countersunk holes in each...... I launched the Monte Carlo and left it running, tied to the dock. I pulled the trailer up and zipped in 8 screws, backed it back in and loaded..... I idled on and gave it a SMALL blip of throttle just before it stopped moving..... WHAM! it hit the winch stand hard enough to worry me until I looked to verify nothing was damaged.... whole new ballgame...
I KNEW these things were good but I'm blow away.... two little chunks of plastic under a boat that is 33' oal and nearly 10,000 lbs.... I didn't know they were THAT good!
No longer will I be messing up the ramp. I'd say that now I can launch and load shallower and I can likely winch it up the last bit now....
So I have known about the virtue of bunk slicks and have steered many people toward them but I never actually used them myself..... I have intended to add them to my trailer but I haven't had the money to get them.... I figured I needed a LOT of them to do the over 40 feet of bunks on my trailer and that was gonna be pricey..... Well today I was looking at the 8x10" piece of 3/4" teflon I had left over from making a spacer for the windlass and at the 3/4" gap between the hull and the front of my center bunks..... I ripped it into two 4x10" pieces and drilled 4 countersunk holes in each...... I launched the Monte Carlo and left it running, tied to the dock. I pulled the trailer up and zipped in 8 screws, backed it back in and loaded..... I idled on and gave it a SMALL blip of throttle just before it stopped moving..... WHAM! it hit the winch stand hard enough to worry me until I looked to verify nothing was damaged.... whole new ballgame...
I KNEW these things were good but I'm blow away.... two little chunks of plastic under a boat that is 33' oal and nearly 10,000 lbs.... I didn't know they were THAT good!
No longer will I be messing up the ramp. I'd say that now I can launch and load shallower and I can likely winch it up the last bit now....
