Hi Guys, I love my 2002 SSV Launch but dang that reverse thing is tripping me up. I boat at a pretty shallow lake. Had a littke 17.5 Sea Ray Sport w/ tower before very easy to drive and maneuver onto the trailer and back away from the dock after dropping off my husband.
I've given myself time to get used to it but it is not getting any better. Everytime I drive my husband up to the dock and drop him off when I go to back up the darn end of the boat kicks over the right hand side throws me into shallow water (luckily it is a mudd bottom) but depth finder read 3.5 ft the tother day and kicked up some major mudd. To close for comfort.
I can pick him up and back out no problem. We think it might be his body weight when he gets of the boat kicking it to the right I have to back up have no choice because of the depth and set up of the boat ramp. Any pointers suggestions. Do you think if I ease him up the ramp he grabs on to the nose of the boat and pushes me straight back would that work ? If not I'm either going to make him swim for it, or learn to back a trailer . I can't handle these close calls freaks me out !!! Out of curiousity what is the bare minimum amount of water that the boat can run in without screwing with the prop......... everything else is great love to wakesurf, but gotta get this reverse figured out