Seems like doing all this would take even longer than just hooking the winch strap all the way...

Sounds kinda like the o.p. Wound way too tight.

Power loading your boat causes a wash out at the base of the ramp leading to a drop off. This isn't a real good idea. I take a few seconds to attach the bow strap before I pull out. Never seemed to slow down the line

I'm fast enough I guess, too bad if I'm not lol. Believe it or not, I have never been approached at the ramp for anything negative like my load/unload speed or whatever else.

I simply back the trailer in, and while my kid is driving the boat on, I stand at the back of the truck, and when it hits the bow roller I hook the strap, walk the 12 feet to my cab and drive out. If someone cant wait for me to walk that 12 feet to my truck, pizz on em'.

I was seven or 8 years old and sitting in a Skeeter bass boat at lake Arrowhead with my uncle in the boat. He was not a fan of hooking the strap before pulling out, and my cousin in the pickup dumped the clutch and off the boat came with me in it.

Now that's funny right there.

Early in my boating days, 30 years ago my wife and I witnessed a somewhat funny boat ramp fiasco. We were circling like vultures in the lake at the Chaha boat ramp on ray hubbard waiting to get a spot cleared at the dock. 4 young fellas, looked to be 18 or 19 years old had the family 4 winns ski boat out and were loading it on the trailer. It was a big boat. One kid is driving the truck, backs the trailer down and another drove the boat on the trailer. The boat driver told the pickup truck driver, "Go Ahead, pull it". The pickup driver gets up the ramp maybe 3 ft. or so, then accelerates hard. Needless to say he jerked that trailer and the boat slid back and off the trailer onto the ramp. The kid was upset that his Dad was going to kill him. It took me and 7 other people to actually push that boat back down the concrete ramp so they could load it. That "learnt" me that it was possible for a boat to slide off the trailer. Just sayin'. I think you are rolling the dice to not take the time to hook the winch strap prior to pulling out.

You�re wrong. A boat and trailer know when a Pro is loading a boat. The boat and trailer behave differently, and physics, friction and gravity are all momentarily suspended while jersey man is levitated up onto the ramp at whatever speed/acceleration rate looks the coolest. Don�t you know anything?

If I'm wrong sorry beartrap, but were you not the one that posted about parking in the "to go" parking spot a while back?
Just wondering, it is what it is though, different strokes and all that.

Applebee�s. Holding up the line at the to go parking.

Yes he did, is complaints have led to the closure of dozens of locations. Lol

Guess I was looking at this all wrong..... so my thought process on becoming faster/better at loading/unloading is, in my mind, a courtesy to the other people using the ramp. I dont do it for me or to try and look like a boss, I have become good at it for the sole intention of showing common regard for my fellow man. I take pride in this, wish more people did.

I do the same except I run it all the way up and hope it stays there while I just take slack out of the strap. Takes me about 1/2 minute. I have seen unsecured boats come off the trailer on the ramp so I am not going with the Pro method. Some amateur dropping his boat on the ramp while trying the Pro will tie it up for a long time. I hope not too many people do it like the Tawakoni FD. They pull down the middle of the ramp and leave the truck there until they return.