Trailering Your Boat This Summer? Heres What You Need To Do To Keep It On The Road.
Each year thousands of boating enthusiasts, fishing gurus and summer vacationers trailer their boat to a nearby lake or head to their weekend get away cottage and each year accidents by the dozens occur from a variety of failures or malfunctions. You see them on the side of the highways every year; a blown out tire, a boat and trailer separated from the tow vehicle and in a ditch next to the highway or sometimes flipped over on the side of the road. Sometimes its a multi-vehicle accident with cars, trucks and a boat all mixed up together. Someone usually gets hurt and sometimes theres fatalities.
Well, if youre planning to trailer your boat and it doesnt matter whether its a pontoon boat, power boat, cruiser, a sailboat or even a small fishing boat, heres what you need to check and fix before you hit the road.
Tires- Tires are probably the most common things to fail and cause someone to get stuck on the side of the road. The reason is because a lot of people store their boats and trailers outside and they sit in storage a good deal of time. The rubber gets old, loses...