Need a recommendation for someone to do some work on my boat trailer. I sent an email to capecodboattrailer but have not heard anything except a reply that they would look into it and get back to me but still nothing.... so I re-sent it again.
Is there anyone else you can think of that can do what I need?

Here is the email explaining what I need done...

I have a fast load 3236TRD trailer. My boat is a 32’ Mirage Pilothouse sport fish and I am having a problem with the single keel roller that is fwd. There is too much weight on it and the boat hull gets scraped on the trailer and roller bracket. Hence I rarely use the trailer. I believe the boat needs more keel support and I want to install a set of keel bunks along the fwd keel. I attached a photo of my trailer with the roller as it is now, and one of a trailer that has these keel bunks I would like to have installed on my trailer as well as a photo of the boat. I think this will better help to keep the boat aligned when loading and help support the keel area better than the single roller that is there now without gouging the bottom.

Please look at these photos. I might need another cross member support as well to do install this.

I am over on the Vineyard but If I bring you the trailer and leave it with you if you can install something like this over the winter. The boat is on blocks for the winter and I will not need the trailer for a long time so I could bring it by within a few weeks time. Or perhaps you have another suggestion? I also need a few other minor things done as well.

Any boat dealer or marina with a half ass service department can tackle that job.

Nice rig by the way, that's the right sort of trailer boat to take down to NC for the winter bluefin bite!

The problem I'm seeing is the bunks are a bit too low and the lack of angle in the bunks makes the boat sit a little too flat, or bow down even, on the trailer. That's probably putting too much weight on the single forward roller and bow stop.

Looking at this I think what you really need is to adjust the bunks so that they are a bit higher and that there's a slight angle, ie a touch higher in the bow than stern. You'd also gain some clearance on the fenders in the process.

Are those bunk brackets bending? If that's the case they might need replacement, no big deal, just a bolt-on part.

At that point, adjusting the bow stop, and replacing the keel roller with one that is adjustable would give it a good fit and would probably be OK..

If you really wanted to ditch the roller and go to a short set of bunks to support the bow at that point, I don't think you'd need to add a cross member. Just using what's there (go back to the next one), and adjusting it correctly, would do the trick.

All this type of stuff is available bolt-on, it'd be an easy job for anyone in the business.

Jon

If those bunk brackets are bending, you might also want to consider requesting a second set of bunks running inside of the existing bunks. It would help spread the weight.

Jon

That trailer isn't set up right based on your last posts about how it is to tow. That rig needs to go to a decent trailer dealer.

To be honest I don't really trailer this boat. I have pulled it out of the water for a day or two with it but I have no plans to drive this on the highway. Too tall and too wide for my liking. I might take it 3 miles from the house to the ramp but that is it. If you have the right truck it trailers OK but you will not see me driving this on I-95. I have been in a big duramax rig towing this boat and it was fine. But I really don't want to get into that much truck. I have the yard pull it and block it up. It is too big for me to pull on a regular basis.
But.... I want the trailer set up right anyway and now is a good time to do it. (boat is on blocks and ferry rates are cheap now) Personally I think it sits a little flat (I agree) and the bunks could be raised or tilted slightly and that would make somewhat better but I still want it easier to load and the load spread on more surface area than one roller. But I want all this done by a professional.

I would like to take it to a good trailer dealer that knows what to do and how to do it...WHO? is the question. I need someone say from New Bedford to Orleans on the cape...anyone got a name that I can call that they would trust?

Give'um a call, he knows his chit

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