trailer bunks

bosunscrew · #1 10-20-2006, 09:59 PM

How far apart do most of you guys have your bunks (skegs) on your trailer. Mine are to far apart and unless the boat is put on the trailer perfect then it sits cocked on the trailer.

lost2a6 · #2 10-20-2006, 10:38 PM

Try not backing the trailer so far in the water. I see this problem quite often and a lot of times it's due to the trailer being too deep in the water.

Capt Chuck · #3 10-21-2006, 12:14 AM

For a float on type trailer, you might try constructing a "V" type guide bunk on the back crossmember. This helps centering the boat up perfectly for me.

RUSTYNTABATHA · #4 10-21-2006, 07:57 AM

PUT A KEEL CRADLE IN FRONT OF YOUR REAR BUNKS IT WILL KEEP YOU FROM SCARING THE HULL ON STEEP RAMPS, HELP TO ALIGHN THE BOAT, AND ADD MORE SUPPORT FOR THE HULL FOR THOSE LONG HAULS. WARTHOG POSTED A PIC WITH THEM INSTALLED ON A PREVIOUS THREAD BUT I HAVE C.R.S. AND DONT REMEMBER WICH ONE ?
RUSTY

RUSTYNTABATHA · #5 10-21-2006, 08:06 AM

FOUND IT IT WAS IN
FINALY IN THE BOOTH
TAKE A LOOK @ THE KEEL BUNKS THATS WHAT HE CALLED THEM. THERE ON ALOT OF THE TRAILERS AROUND HERE.
RUSTY

warthog5 · #6 10-22-2006, 01:09 PM

capt_chuck If you will get rid of the junky crap on that fron crossmember and install another crossmember up there.
2in X 2in X 1/4in and install foward keel bunk's you will improve loading ease by 100%.

The Stem pick's up on the foward keel bunk's and guide's the boat stright up to the winch stand center, even if the steering wheel is turned some.

I will not have a trailer without them. It makes loading so easy and fast on the ramp, it will make other people fooling around on the ramp to load head's spin.

Those hard plastic pad's and V'd PVC pipe's have been known to skin the gellcoat off the Stem/Keel area.

lost2a6 · #7 10-22-2006, 08:10 PM

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capt_chuck If you will get rid of the junky crap on that fron crossmember and install another crossmember up there.
2in X 2in X 1/4in and install foward keel bunk's you will improve loading ease by 100%.

The Stem pick's up on the foward keel bunk's and guide's the boat stright up to the winch stand center, even if the steering wheel is turned some.

I will not have a trailer without them. It makes loading so easy and fast on the ramp, it will make other people fooling around on the ramp to load head's spin.

Those hard plastic pad's and V'd PVC pipe's have been known to skin the gellcoat off the Stem/Keel area.

This is the way that I set up all of my trailers as well. It works great! The only thing is I leave off the rear guides, they just get in the way. With this set up, it even makes a drunk captain look like he hasn't had one beer.

Ikan Besar · #8 10-22-2006, 08:41 PM

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capt_chuck If you will get rid of the junky crap on that fron crossmember

you always run the risk with a response like this of your own stuff coming under scrutiny...

warthog5 · #9 10-22-2006, 09:50 PM

HeHe Hey, I'm just trying to make life easier for folk's.

As to the PVC guide-on's. They are really not there to trap the boat, as they will bnd in a sideway's current with the boat leaning on them.

They are there more for being able to see where the trailer is when backing it and the boat is not on it.

With my setup you need enough power to control the boat [go easy] but under control. As your going foward you will come to a point that a comitment is made and is lined up correctly, keeping any sideway's current in mind.

If you screwup and miss and have to revurse. it usually is not pretty.

but if your angle and foward speed are correct, it's a snap. A little added power once the Stem has mated with the foward keel bunk's and she goes home to the winch stand roller's. All in one fluid motion.

LEVERETTE5 · #10 10-23-2006, 01:09 PM

I think they are talking about the PVC V trap that guides the keel and not the guide post that you are speaking of.I could be wrong.Keith