About TowGo

How It Began

For years, I thought about getting a small boat.

The cost was not really what stopped me, although the possibility of damaging the boat while backing it down a ramp certainly did not help. What intimidated me was the trailer. I could picture myself holding up a line of experienced boaters while I struggled to make the trailer go where I wanted it to go.

Eventually, I let the idea fade. Instead, I bought a kayak that I could carry on the roof of my car.

Then one day, I watched Mike back his boat into the water.

The ramp was chaotic. One boater had drifted too far to the right and dropped a trailer wheel off the edge. Another had gotten too close to the dock on the left and wedged his boat beneath the deck. Both were stuck.

Mike did not hesitate.

He backed around both of them, slalom-style, then straightened the trailer and entered the water precisely in the center of the ramp.

Watching him, I thought, “I could figure this out.” I wasn't thinking about building a business. I simply wanted to solve a problem that had kept me from buying a boat.

I kept thinking about it.

A couple of years later, I had a working prototype: a small lawn tractor pulling an even smaller trailer. It was crude, but it demonstrated the principle. Patents, engineering, testing, and years of refinement followed.

And eventually, that idea became TowGo.

The first time I could back a trailer with confidence and control, it felt great. I wanted other people to experience that same feeling.

That is how TowGo began. Backing a trailer should not be the obstacle that keeps someone from boating, camping, traveling, or doing the things they have always wanted to do. After all, no one sets out for the day because they want to operate a trailer. They are going out to enjoy what comes after it.

The trailer should barely consume a moment’s thought.