Bottom paint touch up

[Scott Krupa]

I want to lift my 23.5 off of the trailer to touch-up paint some of the bottom. Iwould like to use 2 wooden beams to support the boat. Are there two pointson the hull best suited to position the beams?

 

[Bill O'Donovan]

Frustrating

The damn slats are always in the way when you go to paint. Jacking up the boat to access them is possible, but you always run the risk of getting crushed. Your wife would complain.An alternative is to back the entire trailer up onto those rampstands used to put a '57 on blocks. That way you get the trailer well off the ground so you can get under and paint everywhere but under the slats. And the ramps are much more sturdy than what you're suggesting.

 

[Arturo DeVitalis]

Another Thoght

My neighbor buddy, Gary, fresh from living most of his life in Erie PA came over and said this would work. paint as much as you can reach while on the trailer. use cinder blocks bridging two 2x6's piled on top of each other as support, after raising the tongue as high as possible (even if you have to use a car jack) then lowering the trailer carefully, paint the foreward part above the bunks, then do the aft part the same way. Hope this helps. PS- the boat won't roll because the stern is still sitting on the bunks.