| Launching Boats With Front Towbars
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| Reversing is a pain in the neck!! A Watling Front Towbar is ideal for launching boats on any slipway. |
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| Professional boatyards, slipway operators and other boating establishments have known the benefits of front mounted towbars for decades. Turn up at almost any commercially run slipway or marina and you will most likely find a modified tractor or Land Rover with a towball mounted on the front, trundling up and down the slip and pushing boats into and out of parking spaces. |
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Here at Watling Engineers we are opening up this trade secret to the general public by designing a range of front towbars for commonly available passenger and commercial vehicles. They are all detachable making them as unobtrusive as possible when not in use and make launching your boat a breeze.
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Reversing is a pain in the neck, literally, and if you happen to be attached to a boat trailer at the time, it is even worse. It doesn’t seem to matter which way you turn the wheel, the damn thing just wont go where you want it to.
Now this is fine if you have an open field and plenty of time, but if you are trying to launch your boat on an awkward slipway, it can be more than a little frustrating.
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Launching your boat with a front towbar gives added visibility and more manoeuvrability. Having the use of low ratio forward gears is a great benefit to many 4x4 owners
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With a front towbar, smaller steering movements result in quicker direction changes. Also, everything you need to see is directly in front of you resulting in no confusion between left and right!
The benefits of a front towbar don’t just stop at the slipway. A front towbar makes parking your boat trailer at home or moving it around the the boat park so much easier you will wonder why it has not been done before.
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| Parking is simple when you can see where you are going!. |
Don't just take our word for it, click here to read what Boat Mart thought about our Front Towbars. this is a 2.8mb file and may take a little time to load
Designs are available for an ever increasing number of vehicles. If yours is not listed, please call for details of our special design and fit service.
Click here for a full application list
ALL OUR FRONT TOWBARS ARE AVAILABLE WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR SELF-FITTING. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A MAIL ORDER QUOTE.
The detachable nature of the front towbar means that it is as unobtrusive as possible when not in use.
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Designs
are available for an increasing number of vehicles
including the Jeep Cherokee, Mercedes ML and VW
Passat all pictured above. See our pricelist
for a full listing. |
Other advantages include being able to use the power
of you vehicle to manoeuvre your trailer instead of
your back or a 12v battery, inclines, gravel and grass
are no longer obstacles and you no longer have to rely
on vague arm waving and “left a bit, right a bit”
instructions.
ADVANTAGES
- Detachable: The front part of the Push-Bar
is easily removed so that the front of your vehicle
is kept neat and tidy.
- Neat: The main part of the Push-Bar is normally
hidden.
- Look & See: No more neck craning (or
mind numbing) problems of which way to steer to miss
that tree!
- Manoeuvre: Into tight corners with ease
- its all in front of you.
- Power: Use the power of your vehicle, not
your back, to move your caravan,
powerboat, horsebox, on grass, gravel or uphill.
- Control: Position double axle caravans with
ease.
- Easy to Use: Quick to fit - simply remove
the plastic bung, slide the detachable
section into the fixed tube and secure with the HT
Pin & R clip
- Special Designs: For vehicles not on our
standard list we can usually design and manufacture
a 'one off' on your vehicle.
LINKS
For Everything you need to know about all things R.I.B.
A wealth of information about where to launch your boat in the UK and abroad.
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