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by blacklab99 » Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:20 pm
Sorry, I've come in on this late.
This is abit confusing ??? From what I'm reading, the skeg is grinding on the ramp floor when driving on, is this correct ??
If this is the case, something is amiss.
There's no picture of the whole boat on its trailer, but for the motor to be trimmed up a tad as you drive on, There's no way in hell you should experience so many issues, unless the boat is not level on the trailer ??? or the trailer is in far enough, Its a fine line of adjustment, I have to power forward to release the boat catch and if anything mine slides of too easily. If I've got it right here, it sounds as though the bow is being pushed up, that sounds like roller set up to me, surely ?? Backing in to the ramp, I only just cover the back guide rollers, ( from memory ). But scraping the skeg on the ramp floor would almost mean something out of alignment... The motor clearance from the ground is fine, So if you imagine with the trailer on the ramp, same gaps under the trailer as if on a level road, the ramp continues down on the same gradiant, your boat should float off the trailer on the same angle, so driving on, apart from the initial little lift as the boat goes on the guide rollers, it should then go on the trailer on the same angle of the ramp, and you should have no skeg grinding !! always lift it up again before you drive off the ramp, but not being able for some reason, to drive on any more than half way ??? .....something is not as it should be.... can you show a full shot of the boat on the trailer and up close and personal of the rollers ????
I'ts been a hard day, probably got the whole topic wrong !!! But just never heard of having a skeg dragging issue.......