May 13th, 2006 - Saturday

Today I went and picked up my new trailer from the store.  It was a 2 hour process but eventually we got home with it.  It took me most of the day, but I ultimately figured out how to get the trailer under the boat w/o damaging the boat.  First, I went to the Home Depot and picked up 4 castors and tried various ways of attaching them to the boat.  After a few failures, I finally got he boat out of the garage.  From there, it was a matter of replacing the castors w/ 2x4 blocks.  I tried different things to lift the boat up, but ultimately I used the winch on the trailer to effectively pull the boat up and force the trailer under the boat.  While half way though, I cut away some of the support structures under the boat.  You have to see the pictures to understand what I mean: