That is if the trailer is to far up the ramp you will need to winch the boat up to the locking device on recovery, when launching in this situation you will need to push or power your boat off the trailer after disengaging the locking device. Of course this is true even if you use a conventional bow roller but seemingly more so if you have a locking device, the sweet spot/working range of the locking device is just smaller. I forgot to mention that with both the boat buddy ii and ramp n clamp (I suspect the boat2trailer is the same), positioning of the trailer in the ramp and alignment of the boat to the trailer is key to a smooth / trouble free recovery and launch. If the cover breaks while you are power loading the metal underneath the plastic could easily damage your boat. The locking mechanism on boat buddy ii is more prone to breaking so is it’s cover. The boat buddy ii is about half the price of the other devices. Price wise the ramp n clamp is about the same price is the boat2trailer. Personally, I don’t see much value in the ability to pull a string or pull a lever to release the boat from inside the boat but it’s because that is not how I launch when boating solo or with others. I didn’t see any recovery videos on the boat2trailer site. One thing that I noticed is that the boat2trailer device seems to focus on making launching easy whereas the other devices focus on recovering the boat onto the trailer, at least that is their most important function for me. The boat2trailer with the roller seems to be the latest variant of this device. The ramp n clamp which I’m currently using has a hard plastic shell like that of some premium bow rollers. The boat buddy’s shell is made of soft plastic that cracks easily. I started with the boat buddy ii, similar to both the ramp n clamp as well as this boat2trailer device.
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