its good to have dunk around.
jan
Zooming in on picture the axle doesn’t look like it slides. Most of boat is forward of axle and post doesn’t look like it can move too far. Judgeing by picture the sides of trailer start curveing not far from axle. But I would try to slide it a little further forward.
That’s surely an impressive looking boat, soon to be ruined by an inferior trailer.
The cost of Liberty, is eternal vigilance!!
looked at the photo, read the posts. A buch of good advice. However I do have a question? How did that boat, wind up on that trailer? Did it come from the dealer that way? It don’t fit and someone got short changed or rather short trailered.
Tongue weight should be 5-7% of GTW … that’s it. Too much tongue weight and you overstress the towbar and increa the chance of your jack-knifing under hard braking. Too littlem abd you can induce swaying in the trailer, like chine walking. You guys who think you can give advice just by looking at a picture need to re-think what you asking this guy to do.
Man, measure you tongue weight and adjust from there.
OK so i bought the boat on this trailer and, if you read my posts it is my first boat and i have learned some things the hard way, so i unhooked the winch strap and the bow raised up like to inches and just sat there still, so I took out the wrench and loosened up the winch post slid it forward tighten it, cranked the boat up, now the bunks are like 3 inches from the outer transom edge, the only way to make em even or gain the last 2-3 inches is to side mount the spare and move the winch post up another couple inches, i trailer her back to IOP this weekend to leave for the winter, trailered fine, and loaded/unloaded at the marine with no problems, I drag her with a very large SUV and have no problems at all, no idea who put the boat on the trailer or any of that but seems like moving the winch post worked well. thanks
If it swims throw a fly at it!