How To Lift a Boat Off Of Trailer on Land - My 2000 Boston Whaler Dauntless

In this video I lift my 2000 Boston Whaler Dauntless Boat off off the trailer using the trailer jack method on land. I use 6x6 cribbing to support the Transom as well as do the final lift with more 6x6 cribbing towards the bow using the trailer jack stand. The only extra tool I needed was a floor jack to get the bow up high enough to block it correctly.

Getting the Dauntless of the trailer was critical. I'll be taking the bottom paint off as well as replacing the bunks and setting the boat back on the trailer by a about 6 inches to hopefully make launching easier. More to come!

Incidentally, the 6x6 blocks were free. A local crate manufacturer had cast offs I could use. I cut some of these down to 18" and left the rest (rear) at 36". Cheaper than buying them!

PSA - This is educational and entertainment. I am not encouraging anyone to do this. If you chose to do this for your own boat, you do so at your own Risk!

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00:00 Introduction
00:24 What We will be using
01:11 Creating a Level Spot for the Boat
01:44 Setting the Boat on a Level Spot
03:18 Taking straps and Winch Strap off
04:20 Dropping Trailer Jack to Raise Transom
04:31 Blocking The Transon with Wood Cribbing
05:45 Raising Trailer Jack to Rest Transom on Cribbing
06:03 Raising Front with Jack and Install Cribbing
07:07 Boat is off the Trailer!

[gm]

Excellent and genius for sure. I took the lazy man’s approach and launched my boat at the marina and I simply told the parks rangers that I left the keys home and would have to go back home with the car and trailer. I then worked on the trailer in my driveway and completed all the work in a few hours and went back to the Marina to get my boat. Woo hoo!

[pabstblurobot]

I had to do this same thing this spring- with an 18 foot Wellcraft. The trailer for my boat was rusty old, the rear perpendicular frame rail broke shortly after landing the boat one day. We made it home, but elected not to push our luck by driving the boat to a nearby body of water, or our local boat dealer. Our local boat dealer kindly gifted us a trailer that he had laying around, and told us how to switch them out with the same process you showed. We blocked up the transom on both sides rather than in the middle, and used two jacks to walk the trailer out from under the boat and switch in the replacement. Luckily the replacement fit OK, and the process went smoothly for me and my brother.

[SouthernDave]

Did something very similar to get mine up off the trailer so I could redo the bunks. Only significant difference is I cut a "V" into the top block to cradle the hull and a "V" block to go on my floor jack to do the lifting. Was nervous about it when I did it but went very well. Thanks for the video.

[glockonr]

I've done this with both a 18" Hydra sport and a 20" Procraft. I built an A-frame and placed it about 3/4 from the back of the boat that held the boat with a heavy nylon strap. This way I was able to simply pull the trailer out from under the boat. You just need to make sure you build your A frame wide enough to pull the trailer out.

[jasonfrendo]

Another way is to use tyres, by keeping the trailer hooked up to the vehicle slowly back the boat off the trailer onto tyres. Once the transom is sitting on the tyres you can go along and drive the trailer out slowly adding more tyres as you go. I did this when I built a new trailer and it worked well.

[thilltony]

Next time, put the front blocks as far forward of any crossmembers as possible. Then scoot the trailer as far forward, and jack the boat up behind the crossmember. Remove the blocking, and scoot the trailer as far forward again and put the blocking back in. That way, you can get the trailer out so you can work on it easily.

Another way to do this is to tie the boat to a tree or other solid point. Block up the back of the boat as you did and then slowly pull the trailer forward. Once you get it as far forward as comfortable, jack up the front of the boat and block it up and pull the trailer out.

Either way, good job on the video!

[karejonsson]

I want to use the boat-clubs trailer, thus returning it. The trailer seams stuck after this.
The style and tone of this video is very good. Nice to listen to.

[bernie]

What I did with mine was to block the stern much like you did, but for the bow I used and A Frame chain fall. With that set up I just rolled the trailer completely out from under the boat. Then after trailer was gone I lowered the bow one front cribbing. Made getting to the bottom so much easier to paint.

[r.schaefer]

I built a scaffold and hung my boat with a comalong front and chain block stern as I needed to get the trailer out to swap the side support rollers I had for skids. Can't put up pics but it worked a treat.

[xSmiles]

I was unsure how I was going to paint bottom of my boat so had marina lift it and block it up for me while I worked on it. Took me a week. Now I need to do the trailer bunks hence why I’m here, but I am liking the other commenters ideas and either gonna take back down to visitors dock and work on it in lot and pay the fee.

[TIMEtoRIDE]

Once safely blocked and stable, you could remove the trailer tires-rims to gain 10 extra inches of clearance to work and paint.

[captsunny]

It's amazing what you can do with your boat trailer when it comes to moving things around on your rig that's how I adjusted the transom height of my new in repowered motor on my 21c hunt was by using the trailer jack etc slide the motor up a notch or two on the transom

[chrisfuller]

Just seeing this video. Thank you for this. Never had a reason to lift my boat off my trailer but this would be how I'd do it. Very well thought out. Good Job Sir.

[underdog]

Great idea, I’ll be doing this at some point . !
Level ground would of been much easier in your case but you got it done safe enough …

[scottybear]

I admire your ability to do things such as lifting your boat and I like to share some of my ways to remove the boat and set it on blocks. Here we go, leave the trailer on the truck, determine where you have the room to take your boat off, you need a anchor such as a lite pole or another vehicle strap the boat to the anchor using the tow islets to hold the boat from moving, gather the blocking make your crib at the back below the transom as you did, you can use a hydraulic jack to lift the boat under the transom taking some ot weight off the bunkes using good blocking between the jack and boat as long as you go from starboard to Port, starting from the keel to each side make it wide and it will be stable. Remove the bow strap so the boat is unhooked, making sure you anchor straps are tight gentle pull the trailer out from under the boat if you want you can also take a little weight off the front, you will be surprised how easy it will come off, when you have the back of the trailer about halfway or more make your crib under the middle of the boat again if you need lift the boat higher use your hydraulic jack making sure you have sufficient blocking to support the hull and the weight it doesn't need to be over done, the boat will not tip because it's supported at the transom it will be stable enough to crawl inside of it if need too. Blocking the front you can block under the center keel and not damage the boat the keel can take a lot More weight than you think. I've done this for sixteen years owning my resort in Canada and never had problems removing a boat from a trailer. I did this a hundred times and always had success. Remember the More surface you support the better it is for removing the boat. Happy sailing good luck and God's speed.

[kenburt]

Great job! Got it done with minimal effort and cost. Thanks for sharing.

[ViktorBludov]

I had no idea this was possible without special equipment. We have the same size boat and the bunk boards stick out an inch too far. enough that one time I damaged a sounder sensor when pulling out a boat. Now I know how to replace the carpeting on the bunks and possibly shorten it by 1/2 inch. Thank you

[tonykourounblis]

Just slide off onto some tyres I did so on my own and winched it back on after trailer repairs piece of cake

[leonelsarmiento]

Awesome idea, I will use it to lift my boat. Thanks

[caseythurmond]

Sweet! I'm looking to do the same thing to refinish my boat. I love the videos my man. Keep em coming.