Thank you for your always-insightful post replies Denny! I'm glad you still stay active on the forum! We are all lucky beneficiaries of your continued participation! Hope all is well with you and yours, and the new rig.
I do like my roller trailer. Mine does have a lot of friction. I could not manually push the boat aft to replace the Y-block stop yesterday in the driveway. Also, I have 43 years worth of bottom paint on my SeaCraft so not sure how well it would slide on bunks... I would need plastic-topped front bunks I'm told. My takeaway is I should lube (replace!?) my rollers...
My black rubber (yates?) wheels do mar the hull after the slim occurrence that they touch the gelcoat above the black bottom paint. I'll look into the yellow polyurethane rollers if I end up refreshing my trailer, which is likely.
One idiosyncrasy of my trailer occurs when I dunk it too far. In the past, the starboard rear roller floats and can "kicks up" on end. I learned what not to do, and also affixed a rubber block to limit it's travel, so it doesn't happen much anymore. Also, I edited my above post to include the likely reason why my boat is always mounted skewed to port on the trailer... I'm sure it's due to the weight of oil tank and battery on the starboard side (duh!). I never thought of it until you mentioned balance!
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