Ramlin Trailer modification Bow stop

Post a pic. But, if it is whast I'm thinking of, why are running the boat all the way up to it?

Do you have enough space on tongue for a Bow-eye stop to be added? Is yours like my Ram-lin and has a winch strap through the bow stop pillar?

Perhaps a bow-eye stop originating from the area of the turnbuckle attachment may be the ticket.

behindpropeller- i have to bring close enough to bow stop to be able to attach turnbuckle. I does not matter how far back i load it. I drive thru the mountains for 3 hours. I need something to stop it from moving forward. I do not have a winch. Just bow stop and turnbuckle. A v type stop at the hull would be nice. I was just wondering if anyone else has done this mod. How do i post a pic?

Tim:

This isn't a loading issue. If I load with the rail 4" from the stop and the turnbuckle is connected and tightened, the boat will walk forward. This stinks because the turnbuckle begins to push into the gel and the bow gets up/down travel. I think this is more of an issue with trailers that have the turnbuckle attached at the base of the bow stop pillar than ones which have a separate (and farther aft) attachment point.

Our hilly terrain makes the same thing happen.... and Dan's Boat is heavier than mine.........

Air206 wrote: Tim: This isn't a loading issue. If I load with the rail 4" from the stop and the turnbuckle is connected and tightened, the boat will walk forward. This stinks because the turnbuckle begins to push into the gel and the bow gets up/down travel. I think this is more of an issue with trailers that have the turnbuckle attached at the base of the bow stop pillar than ones which have a separate (and farther aft) attachment point. Our hilly terrain makes the same thing happen.... and Dan's Boat is heavier than mine.........

I didn't say to load the boat 4" from the bow stop. Drive it to the bow stop. If the trailer is too far in the water and you drive it to the bow stop it will rotate and pull the rub rail.


Tim

Maybe i did not explain this correctly. I load my boat and not touching the bow stop. I attach the turnbuckle and do not over tighten. I put cover on and drive home. By the time i get home the boat has slid forward hitting the bow stop. The rub rail gets deformed after the boat slides and the rub rail rubs a hole in my $760 custom cover from bouncing down the highway. The turnbuckle's position will on keep it from sliding off and NOT from sliding forward to the bow stop. I need to have a "V" stop welded to my trailer. I was hoping that someone had this problem and corrected it. Maybe I am the only guy with this issue. Still cannot figure out how to insert pics.

Here is a pic of my trailer

Looks like a poly roller to "V" would work perfect.

Mount above or below bow eye? i would assume below so turnbuckle can attach.

Yes, when it needs to. Like when some a-hole pulls out in front of you and you don't want to become intimate with your boat.

I always floated my boats on the trailer by hand. I would just barely let the rubrail touch the bowstop. It would still slide forward on the way home, so i would loosen the pinch bolt to move the Bowstop forward so it would not compress the rubrail and deform it..

You have a flip up trailer tongue, right? .. Similar to Marty Mabe's 1993 SN Trailer...

I would be mindful of the "up" position of the tongue so that the welded-on V doesn't interfere............ keep that flip action useful....

I have had the same problem and usually I0 notice it most when towing long distances where you might have had to brake hard at some point.
I run a short ratchet strap from the boweye back through two factory welded rings about 18" aft of bowstop (yes, mine is a Ramlin) and snug it up. This seems to help so far.

dcoll -- is your cover a snap on and if so, have you considered having your cover altered so it doesn't contact the crash pads when it's on? I have a custom cover on mine and it has notches that allow me to put the cover on w/out contact of the crash pads. I know this doesn't address the rub-rail deforming issue, but it's probably a lot less effort to have done.