Jon Boat Lift Hack?

We got an old 16′ Red Lund fishing boat for the cabin, and wondering if anyone has any idea’s for some sort of lift hack. We don’t really have room for a regular boat lift, so looking for something that either doesn’t take as much room, or would allow it to be driven onto it on shore. Thinking like something with rollers, or the plastic type floating jetski docking. Any ideas or recommendations? We’ve been just beaching it, and that’s just a pain and not going to work long term.

Place we stay at in Canada basically logs horizontal tied up to shore and you just drive the boat up. Otherwise a simple V angle 2×4 with some of the jet ski rails on top would work. We did this to our Jon boat and works fine. Just make sure to tie off when not there in case of a storm.

At my friends cabin they have 4×4’s running up onto shore with small rollers screwed to each board. Up on shore they just have a winch bolted to a tree. It works great on their 16′ bench seat boat. If I remember right it was a cheap kit they bought that came with everything they needed.

hillhiker wrote:

At my friends cabin they have 4×4’s running up onto shore with small rollers screwed to each board. Up on shore they just have a winch bolted to a tree. It works great on their 16′ bench seat boat. If I remember right it was a cheap kit they bought that came with everything they needed.

Yeah, that’s kind of what I was thinking, get a junk trailer or just some rollers, and jimmy-rig something on shore to pull it up onto, maybe throw a Drotto latch on a post so it’s easy on easy off…

Have used both…if the boat is pretty flat bottom using PVC around a handful of 2×4’s works great. Drive her right up if the shoreline allows it or get a winch and pull on. I was trying to find a pic but couldn’t.

When I was a kid we made a 4×4 frame in a V, put it at a shallow angle with rollers, and winched the boat up. We made the cradle about’ longer than the boat so we could get the whole works out of the water.