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Unread 10-12-2013, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by smokeonthewater View Post
actually looking again, likely all you need is the keel roller... I had a very similar trailer and I put a self centering keel roller there... LOVED it..... ALSO you could install a longer tongue if needed.... I did that too. I just bought the correct tubing and cut to length n drilled the holes to bolt it up
Damn Smoke, ya beat me to it. Was gonna say the same thing.

If you're set on keeping that trailer, buy a longer tongue so you have more room to play with, then move your winch post forward about a foot or so and
then put a center keel roller on that front cross member to protect your keel. Chances are that when you winch her further forward you'll have to readjust some of your rear rollers as she rises up on the new front roller, and possibly you may need to move your axles for proper tongue weight, but those are just adjustments that everyone has to make anyways.

(And on a side not, it the dealer (East Coast Trailers?) took your other trailer back, and then gave you this trailer in it's place... and both times said it was the right size for your boat, I would run... not walk... away from him and never give him another cent of my hard earned dollars. He's obviously interested in either just making money, or doesn't know the first thing about properly fitting a boat onto a trailer).
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