Fly my boat

There were 83's with the light tan hull. What colors are your stripes? Mine is an 83 and it has the light tan hull with Dark Brown,Brown/orange and tan stripe.

KFD - Lower the bow of the boat/trailer, block up the stern corners, then raise the bow/trailer tongue. Put a jack & jack stand under the front keel & take the weight completely off the trailer. Then you can start pulling the trailer out. I found it easier to take the prop guard off. You will have to move your jack & jack stand a few times to work around the tracking fins & crossmembers of the trailer. Just go slow & remember having redundant support is the safe way to proceed.

Alternately, find someone with an adequate hoist & use the lifting rings!

Or loan it to a friend at the lake for a few hours.

Ya, my lakes are better suited to ice fishing or ice skating currently.

The reason I'd like to remove the boat is to install a prop guard on the trailer. I know some people are okay without but it scares me.
I'd also like to sand it down and paint it.

Cheers

I'll give up a trade secret, you need 2 good sturdy 9ft 4x4's.....bare with me cause i use a special I beam with a knotch in the middle, raise the tounge of the trailer as high as you can and use blocks on each side of the trailer in the front, span the 4x4's across the blocks in the front by the bottem lift eye and lower the toungue so the lift eye sits on the spanned 4 by's......head aft and lift the transom and block, pull the trailer making sure the wheels roll by the blocks.
This requires common sense to do, and is safe if carried out that way. I pull trailers from 36 feet boats this way but i use boat jacks up front to lift the front.
hopefully this is understandable and if not maybe someone can come up with a sketch.
Ive used this method many, many times, the biggest thing though is coming up with something in the front to set the trailer eye on securely

Eric,

I see the method. You could lower the tongue of the trailer first and get the blocks under the transom corners. Then raise the tongue of the trailer and proceed as above. No jacks required if the trailer jack has enough range.

Gary, very logical to do it that way, i always have something to lift with so lifting isnt an issue, but your right you swing the wheel jack and lay the tongue on the ground, block the transom than proceed to lift the front, then block.

KFD14

I am about to buy paint for mine. Shoot me an email and I will give you the details. Maybe we could split the cost of the paint.

dwcar@yahoo.com

I took mine off the trailer by lowering the front and using boat jacks at the rear corners. To avoid having to move jacks under the keel, I parked the boat under a large maple with a nice thick branch and used a come a long on the bow eye.

And yes I know that most come a longs are not made to lifting vertical loads. It was only hanging that way long enough to pull out the trailer. ;)