Commentary
In our question and answer section last month, Prestige trailers gave us info on the correct way of power loading on drive-on bunk trailers. I received a couple of interesting responses from a newsletter subscriber. If anyone else has any other thoughts, pro or con, please let me know.
Jan
From Jeff Pagels:
"I cannot believe you folks are actually encouraging power loading at ramps. Having built and rebuild boat ramps my entire professional career with DNR, (31 years) has caused more damage to ramps than anything else. First, the prop wash scours out the end of the ramp causing a hole that when trailers drop over, the end result is a bent axle. Then where does the silt go from the loading, it deposits in a bank a few feet back. So, boaters [complain] about wrecking trailer axels or getting stuck and then props hitting the bar at the back.
Aha,maybe you see from a business standpoint all the extra maintenance and repair money flowing in to Mr. Outboard. Is that your plan?"
"If you have the guts, please print my previous [comments] about power loading for those lazy boaters out there too lazy to crank up the boat. Maybe you can sell more power winches."
