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Bow eye too low?

Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 10:25 pm
by LSUred
As I understood it, you just don't want the eye so tall that it pulls the bow down onto the trailer; you want it to be pulling upward onto the bow rest of the trailer...

That being said, I could be totally wrong. My buddy's HB is very high:

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I put mine a lot lower, just because I didn't want it up too high. Please let me know if this is way too low, I'm having a Coastline trailer built next month and want to be all set. Also I tried to match the bow eye location to Shines LS17...

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Here's Shines for a reference

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Re: Bow eye too low?

Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:10 am
by Cracker Larry
Nah, not too low, that will work just fine.

Re: Bow eye too low?

Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:18 am
by LSUred
Thanks Larry

Re: Bow eye too low?

Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:36 am
by tech_support
My buddy's HB is very high:
the chine at the bow is super high on the HB too, Im sure that why they put the eye up there. I liked the location on my fs17, helped to pull it up. You just have to make sure the winch post fo rth trailer is tall enough to slide the winch up to accommodate the eye location

Re: Bow eye too low?

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 11:55 am
by willg
LSUred, congrats on getting to the trailer stage. That's got to feel good, and I'm sure the trailer will be perfect. Would you mind divulging the price on your Coastline, and how much lead time they needed?

Will

Re: Bow eye too low?

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:46 pm
by peter-curacao
Just adjust the winch to the bow eye, with the 4 u bolts you can move it up and down and back and forth :wink:

Re: Bow eye too low?

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:39 pm
by Fishwater
willg wrote:Would you mind divulging the price on your Coastline, and how much lead time they needed?

Will
I spoke with them a week or two ago for my FS18. That trailer is going to be about $2k. They told me it's about 6 weeks before I'd be able to bring my boat in. They'll build it the day you bring it in if you want to wait. If not it's a couple of days once they get the boat.

Re: Bow eye too low?

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:52 am
by willg
Thanks for the info. I'm sure you'll love your Coastline. I'll be looking for a trailer within a few months. I will likely go to Ty at Tex-All in Conroe given how close I am to him and the same high quality of his trailers.

Re: Bow eye too low?

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 9:36 am
by LSUred
I'm pretty pumped for sure! My coastline cost $2800. For a 17ft boat, ~80" beam. That's with aluminum wheels and aluminum spare, which is definitely the way to go. I called mid summer. So I think my wait was 7 weeks. I'm taking the boat down for the fit on Oct. 3rd 8)

Re: Bow eye too low?

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 6:53 pm
by willg
LSUred wrote:I'm pretty pumped for sure! My coastline cost $2800. For a 17ft boat, ~80" beam. That's with aluminum wheels and aluminum spare, which is definitely the way to go. I called mid summer. So I think my wait was 7 weeks. I'm taking the boat down for the fit on Oct. 3rd 8)
Sweet. We'll need pics, of course.