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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Good job. Nice tutorial. Good comments. Like the stout blocking. Thanks and take care.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 …

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.

Thanks for sharing this method.

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

Great idea, I'll have to do that with mine!

Great video!

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