Gearhead62
Seaman
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2008
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- 66
I slid my winch stand forward today 1.5" on the tongue, to get more tongue weight. Additionally, I moved my winch base up 2.0" on the winch stand, in order to get my winch strap level w/ boat eye (possible mistake?). You'll notice I also have a red shackle strap that pulls boat eye down towards trailer frame for added stability.
Got it all tightened and torqued, but noticed boat itself never really pulled forward on rollers. The tension on the transom straps were almost unchanged, but I was very tight on the winch....strange
Went for a spin, drove fine, did a hard brake check and the boat slid forward and up a few inches, up the bow roller stop, and made a thud...Turns out boat slid forward 3-4 inches on rollers - and my very aft rollers (4), that support just underneath the stern, had slightly broken the plane on the transom and were starting to climb up transom on a 45 degree angle - not good. Rolled in reverse, hit brakes and snapped boat back up on all rollers, bow came back down to normal, retightened, parked.........I'm puzzled on the physics here - why is this happenening? Never did before. Any ideas beyond another red strap to pull eye down tighter, so boat won't crawl?
Thanks!
Gearhead
Got it all tightened and torqued, but noticed boat itself never really pulled forward on rollers. The tension on the transom straps were almost unchanged, but I was very tight on the winch....strange
Went for a spin, drove fine, did a hard brake check and the boat slid forward and up a few inches, up the bow roller stop, and made a thud...Turns out boat slid forward 3-4 inches on rollers - and my very aft rollers (4), that support just underneath the stern, had slightly broken the plane on the transom and were starting to climb up transom on a 45 degree angle - not good. Rolled in reverse, hit brakes and snapped boat back up on all rollers, bow came back down to normal, retightened, parked.........I'm puzzled on the physics here - why is this happenening? Never did before. Any ideas beyond another red strap to pull eye down tighter, so boat won't crawl?
Thanks!
Gearhead