Originally Posted by
speckfinder
While an electric can be handy, you would have to wire it, add a battery to the trailer, or run heavy gauge wire from the front of your truck to power it.
Consider a Fulton F2 2 speed winch, and slip-on rubber boots to wear when launching and/or loading.
With the F2 in granny gear, it takes hardly any effort to winch my fiberglass boat up to the roller.
Yes, the winch is the easy part. The wiring not so much. I use to have one. I ran heavy wire from the battery to the back of my truck to a dryer socket mounted up under the "gunnels" as far as possible. A dryer plug on the end of the winch wires and I was all set. Just plug and go. Don't forget to put a fuse or breaker on the truck wire at the battery.
Fair Winds and Following Seas
Bill H. PTC USN Ret
Chesapeake, Va