Unless you'e parked on a hill pushing your boat back a few inches should be okay. Loosen your belly strap, keep the boat hooked to the winch, back off a turn or so with the winch, use a jack, 2x4, pretty much anything to push the boat rearward. Position the boat where you want it and have enough space to slide the old and new eyebolts out and in. Common sense rules. Tighten the belly strap, change the bow eye. Yes, use 5200 on the new one. Coat everything inside the hole, push the bow eye through and coat the last inch or so of the bow eye before you "bed" it against the hull so that there's a 100% sealed hole. Once everything is installed and tightened put the winch cable back on the new eye, loosen the belly strap, crank the boat "home" on the trailer. tighten the strap, loosen the winch. attach your safety cable and then let everything dry for a day or more, depending on what 5200 you used (fast cure or regular). Bam, you're done.
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1987 V20 w/1987 150HP Yamaha on a Shoreland'r Trailer
1978 16.5 Airslot w/1996 120HP Force on a Four Winns trailer
1996 V21 w/1993 200HP Mercury on a Shoreline Trailer
All towed by a 5.7L Hemi Durango.
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Live simply, Love generously, Care deeply, Speak kindly.
(Leave the rest to God) 
Silence, in the face of evil, is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless.
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