Yesterday I took my boat out halibut fishing. We launch off a beach near the town of Ninilchik. There are several big four-wheel drive tractors with dual tires front and back that back the boat trailer into the surf until the water is deep enough to back the boat off the trailer. When you are done fishing, you motor back to the launching point and call the boat launching office, and they back your trailer into the water, and then, you run your boat up on the trailer, and they pull you out and up on the flat area where we hook up with the van and drive back to the lodge. Driving the boat onto the trailer is tricky because the waves coming in tend to push your boat sideways. I messed up and came in too fast and off angle and busted the sideboards off of the trailer, which makes it very difficult to get the boat on the trailer because it is under the water, and you can’t see it. My boat is a flat-bottom dory, so I went out a ways, headed the dory toward the beach, and gunned it. It slid up on the beach, and we loaded it from there. It was very exciting and a major adrenaline rush! We did catch four halibut.  Today, I have to work on my trailer and reattach the sideboards. For examples of what we experienced, go to YouTube and look up “Deep Creek Carnage.” You can watch some crazy boat loading events where we launch and load. I prayed a lot for God to help me amid our potential carnage.