Thread: In Covering Trailer Bunk Pads Turn Cure Up Toward Boat Or Down Away From Boat

If the bow is not really bad, turn it up to the boat and the weight of the boat will take the bow out.

Originally Posted by sea dancer

if the bow is not really bad, turn it up to the boat and the weight of the boat will take the bow out.

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Thanks guys. The bow isn't bad. This morning I wet down a portion of my lawn real good and put the boards there with the bow down. Then I will put them in the garage with some cinderblocks on them. I use to draw the bow out of pine boards this way. I will leave them a few days this way. Don't know if it will work with this hard wood. I will put them on with the bow turned up. As I said, it isn't a bad bow. But I would have preferred they were straight. But they were the only ones I could get.

There are some strakes/ribs on the bottom of my boat. I will make sure they don't hit them. I guess I could have used pressure treated but with all I have read and info received from members of crappie.com about pressure treated boards and aluminum boat (and mine doesn't have paint on it) I decided to go with the cypress.

Thanks again for the help.

I buy wood from the sawmills for furniture building. I think it takes about 1 year (of natural drying) per inch of thickness for wood to dry and stabilize properly. You might be better off just putting them on the trailer, bow up, and bolting them down. Just my thought. I wish we could get some sawmill cypress here in the foothills.