Yes. Backing up a trailer is a series of small adjustments. Eye-ball your target

Apr 24, 2024
12:17:48pm

TheSpiker All-American

get straight and then do minor wiggles of the steering wheel as you back up keeping the target in your mirrors. (Check all of your mirrors; no tunnel vision. Launch ramps have a lot going on, kids running around, and lots of inexperienced drivers.)

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Time

Mr. Boat Trailer Backer-upper Guy

Division Bell Recovering

Apr 24, 11:36am

With AI and plenty of examples of how the voice-over guy talks, I'm guessing we'll see a lot more of these parodies.

Division Bell

Apr 24, 11:38am

I never got good at it. My son is excellent at it.

CatamountFan

Apr 24, 11:45am

I have never pulled a trailer

El Careeb

Apr 24, 11:48am

I am an expert trailer backer upper guy. But that comes with 50 years of doing

TheSpiker

Apr 24, 12:02pm

They are over-correcting?

Plantagenet

Apr 24, 12:06pm

Yes. Backing up a trailer is a series of small adjustments. Eye-ball your target

TheSpiker

Apr 24, 12:17pm

A single jet ski trailer is the absolute worst.

Corn Pop

Apr 24, 12:30pm

Yeah short tongue with short trailer length, plus not being able to see is difficult. Some of those struggling in the

fldnstrm

Apr 24, 12:42pm

Agreed. If you can't see it, you pretty much have to have a spotter back there to guide you. (At least that's what I

dilbert

Apr 24, 1:15pm

if you were really good at this, you could probably make good money charging $20 a boat

byujag

Apr 24, 12:23pm

That's a good idea, but pride would be hard for most guys to overcome.

TheSpiker

Apr 24, 12:30pm

I saw a pic of a woman in shorts sitting in a lawn chair by the ramp offering that exact thing.

Division Bell

Apr 24, 12:32pm

Worked at a place in my late teens where RVs were sold. I had to constantly move trailers around the lot. I became an

SierraCoug

Apr 24, 12:38pm

this is not an easy skill to learn especially if you can't see the trailor. Tip

qwerew

Apr 24, 1:08pm

Second tip: the trailer moves in the same direction as the bottom of the

Corn Pop

Apr 24, 1:23pm

yep good tips

qwerew

Apr 24, 1:30pm

one day at bullfrog, some off duty employees were scoring people 1-10

OC_Ute

Apr 24, 2:23pm

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