Thread: Boweye Broke

The arm that has the roller on it is adjustable. Raise it up so it contacts the boat. Then crank the winch tight. Eye against roller. When you drive the boat on the trailer the roller should lift the nose of the boat. The eye should be against the roller. To assist in that, keep the boat in gear then hook up winch and tighten down. The take out of gear.


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Your roller it too low. Raise it to touch the keel of the boat.

What smoke wolf said. It has got to be tight. It's that sudden impact when you hit a bump boat rocks down putting slack in strap then snaps back up stretching that eye until it finally snaps.

Originally Posted by SMOKEWOLF67

I'm chiming in with everyone else. Your boat is back too far. Your eye should be against the roller. Leverage of boat rocking is causing eye to break


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Should the weight of the nose of boat be on the roller, like maybe the front of the bunks too high or something to that effect.

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Originally Posted by SMOKEWOLF67

The arm that has the roller on it is adjustable. Raise it up so it contacts the boat. Then crank the winch tight. Eye against roller. When you drive the boat on the trailer the roller should lift the nose of the boat. The eye should be against the roller. To assist in that, keep the boat in gear then hook up winch and tighten down. The take out of gear.


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No adjustment on the winch post to my knowledge

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Originally Posted by gaint_71

Should the weight of the nose of boat be on the roller, like maybe the front of the bunks too high or something to that effect.

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Could be. Can you show a picture of the front of the bunks and good pictures of how the bow roller is mounted to the arm.

Are the boat skids as low as they will go ?? If not you may be able to drop them down and make up for the gap. Otherwise it looks like you may need to drill another hole for your winch head, and raise the bow roller up ... or else get a new winch stand.

What I'm talking about, when I say drill another hole for your winch head, is :

looking at this picture ... the bolt is in the lower hole of the winch head & that whole section needs to be raised up so that the bow roller fits snuggly against the bow of the boat in front of the bow eye ... so that the front end of the boat doesn't move up/down once it's winched up tight and ready to tow.



Your roller assembly obviously is not adjustable, but it does look like the main frame head is "capped" onto the bottom frame and held in place with that bolt (which I assume goes all the way thru to the other side). Whether or not there are already other holes under that cap, you won't know until you unbolt it and lift it up. If there are other holes, but they don't line up with the same distance needed to push the bow roller up against the bow of the boat ... you'll just need to mark it and drill thru both cap and bottom frame.

And NO, I'm not a mechanic, and am merely suggesting an option ... based on what I can see/determine from your pictures.

Originally Posted by tlefire

Could be. Can you show a picture of the front of the bunks and good pictures of how the bow roller is mounted to the arm.

This is a picture runner from front of boat

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