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I'm having trouble with the tilt feature on the trailer, any suggestions?

I moved the winch tower as far back as possible. The slide and bolt that prevent tilting are the limiting factors. Anyway, I mounted the tire horizontally to clear the tilting frame and to add tongue weight. Anyway, It works great. I have an 18 inch trailer extension and using the tilt, the intersection of the tongue and the trailer's frame was at the water's edge. That means my van was about ten feet from the water!!! The trailer wheels were about 1/2 way in. I had to sink it a little deeper to retreive because I had to get the back roller under the water. The van was still no where close to the water. The trailer needs new rollers to reduce friction and I am going to buy a new winch with a web belt instead of a cable. The cable takes a lot of strain because the boat is out of the water way before it is against the stop. However it came up fairly easily in spite of the old rollers. I am going to move the tower forward a little to increase tongue weight . It tilts almost too easily now. The end of the trailer by the taillights need to be padded because the floats can hit the back of the trailer when the main hull comes off the back roller. A big advantage when using the tilt is that the trailer is so short. On our shallow ramp I was only standing in water just over my knees because the trailer just doesn't extend very far into the water. Therefore, I didn't need to get back into the boat and use the motor. I could just guide it from the shore onto the trailer fairly easily. I had been very discouraged by the trailer, but now that I have an operable tilt I am extremely impressed. This boat can be launched and retrieved anywhere you can put the back trailer roller under the water. I wonder if one of the previous owner had moved the winch tower forward. However, it does not appear so. It looked like the rollers had always been touching the hull in the same places. By the way, it was unnecessary to adjust any of the rollers to make these changes even though I moved the boat back about ten inches. It will be helpful to move the guide boards in if you plan to launch the boat conventionally. When the tilt is used the center of the v-rollers guide the boat, not the boards. However, if you do not need the tilt, the guide boards center the boat as the trailer comes up under the still floating boat when hauling out. There may be other owners out there with this problem and this is the fix.

email: Thomas C. Cable, D.D.S.