So, searching an unrelated topic I discovered this post. Has anyone echoed the experience?
"I knwo this isn't related, but I couldn't resist.I was puling my 26S out a couple of weeks ago, and of course the bow did not come all the way up to the stop in front of the trailer.So I let the ballast drain out, and I then I put the boat back in the water without ballast so I could winch it up, more.Not thinking this all the way through, I had also already strapped the boat down to the trailer(across the cockpit) although loosely.I was marveling at how much easier it was to winch the bow up to the stop when I realized my whole boat and trailer was floating in the water (still attached to my car), but floating, nonetheless.Crazy thing is, I'll probbaly do it the same way next time, because the hwole time I've had it, I've never gotten it winched up that far, before."
"I knwo this isn't related, but I couldn't resist.I was puling my 26S out a couple of weeks ago, and of course the bow did not come all the way up to the stop in front of the trailer.So I let the ballast drain out, and I then I put the boat back in the water without ballast so I could winch it up, more.Not thinking this all the way through, I had also already strapped the boat down to the trailer(across the cockpit) although loosely.I was marveling at how much easier it was to winch the bow up to the stop when I realized my whole boat and trailer was floating in the water (still attached to my car), but floating, nonetheless.Crazy thing is, I'll probbaly do it the same way next time, because the hwole time I've had it, I've never gotten it winched up that far, before."