Getting seadoo off trailer to a portable work stand

[seadoodoopartsofcf]

I winterized my Seadoos this weekend, and was able to lift them off the trailer and onto the homemade dollies without any issue. I ran a ratchet strap through the two eyes at the rear, and another ratchet strap around the hull near the center.

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I've used my engine hoist also...you can go to your local salvage yard and cut seatbelts out of junkers to make your own craddle works really well

 

[Spimothy Leary]

I'm surprised you didn't mount a chain fall or an electric winch to your trusses....that's something I'd do without the wifey knowing til it's up and operational...

I considered that, but it helped that I had a winch laying around that came with a trailer purchase a while back, also had the wood laying around so my total investment was a dozen lag bolts... easy peasy. i'm also in a somewhat unique position that I store my ski's next door about 9-10 months a year in the neighbors garage (snowbirds), so my "problem" of storing the ski's on stands in my garage is only a short term problem, the rest of the year I leave the ski's on the trailer.

 

[suke]

I considered that, but it helped that I had a winch laying around that came with a trailer purchase a while back, also had the wood laying around so my total investment was a dozen lag bolts... easy peasy. i'm also in a somewhat unique position that I store my ski's next door about 9-10 months a year in the neighbors garage (snowbirds), so my "problem" of storing the ski's on stands in my garage is only a short term problem, the rest of the year I leave the ski's on the trailer.

That was me too. I had a winch, and wood left over from various projects and just thought......bingo. Even had the lag bolts from making the stands. So it cost me no additional money.

 

[jammin777]

Tim,

I did consider using a 4x4 mounted to the long board to allow room for the winch, but after contacting suke and asking how he solved that problem of having enough room for the crank, "ok fella, how the heck do you winch it down?" and he told me about the 19mm socket and that's all I needed. I might use one of my big 1/2 inch socket wrenches with an adapter to give me a little more leverage but its only going to be a minimal improvement, its not like its unusable with the small socket, but it might be a tad easier if I had a longer wrench.

piggybacking on jammin's post, has anybody else used a plastic runner like on the link? ,

or silicone spray / liquid bunk to lubricate their bunk boards to make it easier to slide things around and how did you like it ?

I'm considering either a) Lubricant on last 18", or b) plastic runner on last 18" to make things just a little easier, I don't want to do the entire bunk. (my buddy did that on his trailer the whole length, and his ski actually starts to slide off the trailer while still in the water so on a steeper ramp, he's left the ski running, at idle, while he climbs off and attaches the winch, otherwise when he gets off the ski to go attach the winch it tends to slide back down, (it was comical the first time I saw it do that lol) I think that problem can be avoided if I just do a small portion and let friction work in my favor holding the ski in place.

I've never used runners or lubricant so i'm a little leery of making that change.

i did some research and there are certain ones that scratch the bottom of the hull but the ones that i posted a link on are not suppose to. just have to make sure to be careful to have the ski secured to the trailer so that it doesn't slide off lol! I plan on installing a safety chain as well. the only reason i am thinking of getting the glides is for ease of transfer from trailer to cart.

 

[jammin777]

well sadly to say ski season is nearing the end in most areas so i decided to resurrect this thread for those that need it.
last year i had a heck of a time manually pulling my ski from the trailer to the shop cart. in the beginning of the season prior to placing my sky on the trailer, i sprayed the bunks with liquid wrench silicon spray. i meant to respray them again at the end of the season but never had the chance to as my season ended way early and haven't had a chance to take her out again.
from that one application the sky transferred to the cart effortlessly by myself manually! the silicon spray really works!
just a heads up.

 

[RodInEscondido]

See my thread relating to ski lifting and silicon:

http://www.seadooforum.com/showthread.php?74614-Rod-has-a-little-lapse