You are right about it putting a lot of stress on the front boat eyelet. I cracked the aluminum on the front of my boat where the eye was welded to the boat.

I had to have a heavy aluminum plate welded to the front of the boat to repair the crack and to have a new eye welded onto the face of that plate.

Then the aluminum around the edge of the plate was being stressed too much.

This all happened before I added the plastic slide things to the top of my 2x4 rails. Now my boat slides along the 2 x 4's much easier.

Each boat is different.

I went over to Bluegrass yesterday and backed my boat into the water so that I could see if the engine would start and run. It's been sitting idle all summer. Last time I went out was back in early May. I was doing a lot of slow trolling around back then just using the depth finder and trying to find out whats on the lake bottom. Surprise, it's devoid of cover in most spots. Typical retired strip mine area lake.

I saw an older couple with a fiberglass boat but they had 2x4 laying on the flat side and not on edge like mine on their boat trailer. Their trailer's wheels had dropped off the end of the ramp and they could not get their boat/trailer out of the hole. So another young man was helping them drive their truck boat/trailer out of the water at the launch ramp when I arrived.

Another guy was fishing Otter Pit yesterday and I found him getting ready to launch his 14 ft aluminum boat. He later told me that he didn't drop off the end of the ramp when he launched. Not sure where the end of the concrete is at Otter Pit. Otter Pit's launch ramp is way down also.

One thing that I noticed is that at a lot of the other pits the shoreline is well exposed. This makes it a lot easier for the bank fisherman to walk around some of the smaller pits and fish. Normally when the waters up the cattails grow right down into the water from the shoreline making it harder to walk around the edge of the water.

QUOTE=Embrey;428767]yeah, not as much difficult ,except i think the straps about to break,not to mention, thats a lot of stress on the front boat eyelet i think[/QUOTE]