Loading Your Boat Easily (Avoid The #1 Mistake)

Don't let your day on the water get ruined by not knowing how to load your boat back onto the trailer. Learn all the steps so you can be on your way, safe and sound and avoid the number one mistake that boaters make when putting their boats back on the trailer. In this weeks video Chad Ferguson from Catfish Edge shows you everything you need to know to learn to load your boat properly at the marina or boat ramp and covers some awesome tips to make the process faster and easier.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Don't move when others are on the ramp
01:15 Backing down the boat ramp
01:40 How to make the boat easier to load
02:06 The biggest mistake boaters make
03:00 Driving the boat on the trailer
03:56 The number one tip for loading a boat on the trailer
05:49 Securing the boat and using a transom saver

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[Catfishedge]

Should I make a boat ramp fails video?

[dualactionriffdevice]

Great video, thank you for the no nonsense, no over production and senseless dramatic filler. This is how you make an educational video folks.

[pineywoodskennel]

Good job multitasking. Filming, backing, loading, droning, talking. You da man! :)

[terrybuckingham]

I’m new to boating so I watched a lot of videos on how to load a boat back onto a trailer. Your video was the most informative and the easiest to understand. Thank you so much!

[zildian]

As a new boat owner, I have been making this very mistake the past 6 months (backing too far into the water). Boat always loads crooked. Thank you so much!

[joes.]

I wish everyone with a boat would watch this. Thank you!

[arciefan]

And normally when I am backing up I have plenty of room to "once I get close to the stopping point of backing up, I jackknife my truck slightly so now I can see those bunks with my side mirror, I use the driver side one so I jackknife that way, (I don't have a backup camera )to pinpoint them where I want to be about the water line" not the bunks obviously on the side of the trailer but the ones you are using for lift" ... Another thing if you are not real familiar with the ramp go ahead and slight trim up a little while your coming on the trailer in case of a shallow ramp. Every thing this man said I spot on agree with and he made a really good video!

[jbsimmons]

Great video. When you are learning from trial and error, it’s nice to get some wisdom from others. Saves a lot of years of doing it wrong. Thanks!

[tommymont]

Perfect.. I have had my boat for just two years and your video solved the problem I was having getting my boat on the trailer. It's no fun trying to get your boat back in line when it's stuck on a fender. Great job. thank you.

[rickrife]

Now that was an informative video. Thank you. I have found the #1 mistake putting your boat in the water was. Forgetting the bottom plug. I have rescued more boats then you can imagine at the marina. And watched far too many leave the launch to start sinking 100 yards from shore. En joyed the video

[awalt]

Followed your trailer part submersion advise. Worked quite nicely and I did not have to wade in the barely above freezing water to secure the boat to the trailer. Thanks.

[motorvN]

Super impressed by your multitasking with the drone etc. Also your tips on being considerate for other ramp users are much appreciated. I will say though what you’re doing is power-loading (using engine thrust to push the boat up the bunks). This erodes ramps that are hard packed soil and hastens the degradation of concrete ramp foundations. Sure it was just a little burst of throttle, but if thousands of people do the very same thing it reduces the life of the ramp and eventually folks are struggling to get their trailers level on a ramp that’s cracked or has deep gouges in it. Your trailer placement was about perfect and the concept of wetting the bunks is smart. Once the boat noses against them and rides up a bit (engine in neutral) get out and use your winch to come up the last couple feet. That’s what it’s there for.

[patmcdonald]

Thanks for the video and especially your consideration of other boaters. An additional safety comment; after your final winching up onto the trailer, an additional safety chain from the winch mount to the bow eye is needed. I believe here in NC, it is a requirement. At our local ramp, saw the winch come loose as the boat / trailer was coming up the ramp. Severely damaged the motor and lower part of the transom. Had the additional chain been there it wouldn't have happened.

[geoffbeers]

Thanks for this. As a first time boat owner, loading is the one thing I am still struggling with. My bunks are clearly too far in the water.

[michaelcowan]

A lot depends on the ramp angle.
But the main thing is to have the bunkboards to guide you on the trailer.
I also installed some short side guide boards to help even more, especially in windy conditions.

[staffordindiana]

Excellent video about putting boat on trailer correctly at launch ramp. DO NOT put trailer in too deep as you covered several times! Good job.

[redzoom]

Thanks so much for this sir! As a near future first time boat owner, loading the boat gives me the most anxiety, but after watching this I feel more confident I can do it without completely embarrassing myself. Lol

[BobSmith-kzjo]

Going to pick up my first bass boat soon. Tracker 170. Of the many, many videos I've watched, this was the most valuable and informative I've seen. Thanks. (Wish me luck!)

[ralphjr]

Thank you Sir, I was definitely doing it wrong an putting my trailer to deep when loading.I'm only in a John boat and could straighten the boat after I pull out and never knew what I was doing wrong, I sure wish someone would have told me this when I was loading my boat wrong at the ramp. I will practice what you showed in this video and when I'm doing it right maybe I can help someone struggling loading their boat onto the trailer. This information will definitely help if the wife an I get a bigger bass boat because I won't be able to lift and move the boat after I pull out of the water and that was what I almost always had to do with my John boat. Thanks again for sharing and helping fellow boaters to not end up on boat ramp fail videos on youtube!

[russelshackleferd]

Well I guess it will go wherever you want by putting your hand at 12 but the same thing aside for putting your hand at 2:00 or 9:45. It's going to do whatever you tell it to go. But to take all of the guess work out of backing up, place your hand on the bottom of the steering wheel or at 6 o clock and move your hand left to go left or right to go right. Another big thing is don't go crazy cranking the wheel from stop to stop, little inputs is all it takes.