drewkaree
Jetboaters Fleet Admiral
- Messages
- 5,566
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- Location
- West Allis & Fremont, WI
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2019
- Boat Model
- AR
- Boat Length
- 21
I won't pretend to be the first for this, but I wanted to put this out there for the specific info that pertains to me (and likely others @Brad460 in particular).
The original bow roller was the beige/white/sand/tan garbage hard plasticky feeling roller that Shorelander outfits the trailer with. Like everyone else with this roller, it marks up the boat INSTANTLY when tightened "properly", and I found that it deformed when the bow eye was tightened up to be just below the roller. My solution was to replace it with a color matching roller that seemed to be a better material after seeing @PJ73 and his replacement. We probably ended up with the same roller, given the issues we both had with it.
After proudly installing my shiny new blue roller, I noticed it didn't mark up the boat, but on its maiden voyage back to storage, it sure as heck seemed to deform just as badly as the OEM roller, and PJ73 REALLY had some issues with his, likely due to trailering farther than I did. My solution was to not tighten the winch strap as much, but that always felt wrong, and the darn thing would need adjustment anyway if the boat moved while in transit. The nice thing about the blue roller is that it was easy to see if the boat moved, because the roller would be deformed again
I pored through MULTIPLE threads here, nothing specific to my boat, but enough general threads to piece together what looked to be a solution, and folks like @Ratket seem to have the same opinion as I do, with similar results on their boats - similar model years and similar lengths. I placed my order from two different places for the parts (nobody had the whole setup at the time), and I was finally able to get it installed yesterday. Soft enough not to mark up the boat in a damaging way like the OEM, but enough stiffness to properly support the front of the boat so that the bow stop frame won't be gouging up the gel coat, and I added the "bells" to the outer edges just in case something were ever to happen, to protect me against the outer metal edges of the bow stop tearing things up.
I wanted to post this up before we headed out for one of the last few rides we've got this year, so here's some pics to show the blue roller, and just how badly it would deform, and the new setup. Deformation was SO bad it might look like a good fit, but hopefully you can see the issues. That's a Stoltz RP-446 for the center, and Stoltz RP-325 for the end pieces, with the OEM bolt in there. Hit me up if you have any questions.
The original bow roller was the beige/white/sand/tan garbage hard plasticky feeling roller that Shorelander outfits the trailer with. Like everyone else with this roller, it marks up the boat INSTANTLY when tightened "properly", and I found that it deformed when the bow eye was tightened up to be just below the roller. My solution was to replace it with a color matching roller that seemed to be a better material after seeing @PJ73 and his replacement. We probably ended up with the same roller, given the issues we both had with it.
After proudly installing my shiny new blue roller, I noticed it didn't mark up the boat, but on its maiden voyage back to storage, it sure as heck seemed to deform just as badly as the OEM roller, and PJ73 REALLY had some issues with his, likely due to trailering farther than I did. My solution was to not tighten the winch strap as much, but that always felt wrong, and the darn thing would need adjustment anyway if the boat moved while in transit. The nice thing about the blue roller is that it was easy to see if the boat moved, because the roller would be deformed again
I pored through MULTIPLE threads here, nothing specific to my boat, but enough general threads to piece together what looked to be a solution, and folks like @Ratket seem to have the same opinion as I do, with similar results on their boats - similar model years and similar lengths. I placed my order from two different places for the parts (nobody had the whole setup at the time), and I was finally able to get it installed yesterday. Soft enough not to mark up the boat in a damaging way like the OEM, but enough stiffness to properly support the front of the boat so that the bow stop frame won't be gouging up the gel coat, and I added the "bells" to the outer edges just in case something were ever to happen, to protect me against the outer metal edges of the bow stop tearing things up.
I wanted to post this up before we headed out for one of the last few rides we've got this year, so here's some pics to show the blue roller, and just how badly it would deform, and the new setup. Deformation was SO bad it might look like a good fit, but hopefully you can see the issues. That's a Stoltz RP-446 for the center, and Stoltz RP-325 for the end pieces, with the OEM bolt in there. Hit me up if you have any questions.
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