Do you take a boat with you?

Geofish I was showing my friend who has same 14ft Lund as you also with a trailer how you load the trailer right into the truck. That is very convenient and allows you to have a larger motor on the boat too. Biggest problem I have is it's tough to be carrying around an engine much bigger then a 9.9. My setup works for me and allows for more utilization of the truck box but your way is far superior thanks for sharing.

We go to Lake Hartwell for 2 weeks each year with family. We usually have our Boston Whaler Montauk 17, 8’ sailing dinghy, and 3 kayaks. The lake is only 2 1/2 hours from home, so we tote the boats with another truck.

This is my old setup. The key for me was the boat trailer that dissembled and went into the back of my pickup.

welove2drive wrote:

GeoFish wrote:

I like your style. Here is mine. Is your store bought or did you put it together yourself? I made mine but its not as elaborate.
Hope this works out, I tried to resize on photobucket but it would not load for me. Forgive me if the size is wrong.

Dirtpig

Nice set up, that,s how I used to do it. It worked, but was a lot of work, now that I am middle age, I needed an easier setup. My is store bought. Looks like we do the same off the grid camping.[img][/img]

lol ya I tried really hard when we got the travel trailer..... no dice.

the popup had a rack on it and my tinny is made for it. has handles and everything. 2 guys easy. by myself not easy but possible. With a dolly and a winch no problem. Dirtpig is the man. that's an awesome setup

Jebby14 wrote:
when we had the popup my 14" aluminum went upside down on top of it and the motor went in the back of the truck. not with the TT Im limited to the canoe.

I'm going to be missing that, too. 14' is still awkward to flip around but two average guys can handle it. If I load with some pvc pipes underneath, I can roll it off myself. There is no way I'm slinging it on top of the Hilton (about 10'?).

Bought one of those BAL spare tire carriers and reinforced and mounted under 5th wheel. My 10ft PortaBote slides right in. I put a nose holding bracket attached under to 5er mid-frame also. Bote seats, transom etc., ride on the 5er back fold-down bike carrier. The 5hp outboard travels laying down in the truck at the front of the bed behind the cab.

That is why we are starting to think about getting a 5th wheel...so we can take the boat along too...

DutchmenSport wrote:
Didn't work.

Try again for you GeoFish:

GeoFish,
I tend to be the talk of the campground and every bodies phone goes their face for a picture. Do you get that as well?

GeoFish wrote:

I like your style. Here is mine. Is your store bought or did you put it together yourself? I made mine but its not as elaborate.
Hope this works out, I tried to resize on photobucket but it would not load for me. Forgive me if the size is wrong.