If you have ever sat behind the wheel of a tow vehicle staring at a boat trailer and felt your stomach drop, you are not alone. I still remember my first attempt at backing a 21-foot bay boat down a busy Texas ramp, with a line of trucks waiting and a few seasoned anglers watching […]

I learned the hard way that boat trailer tires are not the place to cut corners. Two summers ago, I was hauling my 19-foot center console about 80 miles to a launch when the right rear tire blew out on the interstate, sending rubber and chunks of tread across three lanes of traffic. That day […]

Pulling a loaded Yeti or RTIC cooler across soft sand, gravel, or a rocky campsite will wreck your back fast. I have been testing cooler wheel kits for over a year with our paddle sports team, hauling 70-quart ice chests from car parks to beaches, paddle board launches, and tailgates. After rolling, dragging, and dropping […]

Last season I hitched and unhitched a 19-foot center console roughly 40 times, and my factory jack seized solid by June. That experience sent our team down a rabbit hole: we ordered eight of the most popular boat trailer jacks on the market, mounted each one on real trailers at the ramp, and cranked them […]

After pulling my boat trailer 2,800 miles through brackish coastal ramps and lake launches last summer, I learned one truth fast: cheap dust caps do nothing against the vacuum created when a hot hub hits cold water. Water gets sucked past the rear seal, grease turns to paste, and a bearing fails before you hit […]

I still remember the morning I tried to load my 19-foot bass boat alone at a windblown Lake Fork ramp. The bow drifted, my mirror filled with spray, and I heard that sickening scrape of fiberglass on aluminum. That single load taught me what the best boat trailer guides are supposed to do: turn a […]