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I had to email Chuck off-line about this.

His response is:

... don't even think about launching or retrieving at Lobos on 0 tide. ...He watched a fellow rip the axle off a Pacific trailer after he dropped the axle over the edge of the ramp. The drop off has a lip and it caught the tires quite nicely.

Chuck confirmed his tongue is really long, like 80" and still not long enough for the lower part of the ramp.

If the drop-off is as bad as it seems, I don't see how you can get the boat to the water, even with a tilt trailer. With the wheels at the edge, if you tilted the trailer, The trailer will be too short and/or the angle necessary would be like \

I do see how a tilt trailer may help at a 2 or 1.75 tide.