loosen the bow stop from the actual frame of the trailer (should be 4 bolts) and slide it back toward the rear of the trailer a few inches - problem solved. strap goes under the bow stop too.

Adjust the front roller to the boat. You should also be running a tie strap from the eye down around the tongue of the trailer and back up to the eye to secure the boat down on the front that way when goping down the HWY the trailer isnt flexing and bounce off of the gel on the boat.

Everything is welded, non-adjustable. Im just curious if anyone with the same trailer had a different bow stop setup than mine, or if I am just not getting it on the trailer correctly, the previous owner acted like that is how it was supposed to be.

Get some pics of the whole thing, not just the close ups.

It's due to the angle of the ramp. This was talked about on another thread just recently. When the trailer is tilted down at the aft end when backed down the ramp, the boat is coming in level. The ring actually does touch the bow roller at this point.

Then, when you pull up and out of the water, and the boat is sitting level on the trailer, on level ground, the boat is backed away from the trailer. Part of this also has to deal with trailer flex as well.

This is the problem with long pointy boats, and bow rollers. Our kinda boats should have V-blocks that the boat comes to rest on.

In your case, it looks like the bow of the boat rests it weight on the forward bunks of your trailer. Personally, I would not worry to much about it as long as you have a safety chain on the bow eye. As long as you have a safety chain, the worst that is going to happen is you slam on the brakes, and the boat slides forward an inch to the bow roller.

That makes sense, as every ramp that I have had it on thus far has been steep, one of them the trailer drug going in and out, this weekend I am going to try a ramp that has less of a degree of slope and see what happens.

If nothing works, cut the winch mast off your trailer, and bolt on an adjustable new one. This will allow fore/Aft adjustment, as well as up/down for the roller or V-block. Problem solved.

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/t...-bow-stop.html

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/f...-my-fever.html

with no dis-respect to anyone, i still say the whole assembly needs to move back toward the end of the trailer so the bow hits the roller sooner....it doesnt matter what angle the ramp is, you can see from the pics that if the boat slides forward to the roller its going to hit the hook and none of the bow will rest in the roller like its designed to. sucks that its welded b/c it needs adjusted prob by no more than a cpl/few inches.

what does the end of the boat look like on the trailer? does the boat overhang the bunks at all or even the other way, can you see a cpl inches of the bunk at the back? properly set up the transome should be flush with the end of the bunks.

Bingo. You just don't have it pulled up on the trailer. The bow eye should always be snug to the roller and the strap UNDER it. Then you should see about 1.5/2 inches of bunk sticking out past the transom. The flatter ramp will do the trick then you'll be able to "see it" better.