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<blockquote data-quote="DaleH" data-source="post: 417693" data-attributes="member: 15636"><p>Like others, I'd leave as it. The keel is the spine or backbone of the boat, so it's good to have it supported. But like others have experienced here, rollers should not be the <em>primary means of support</em> in a tin hull, or you can encoutner problems and bending of the hull among other things.</p><p></p><p>What worked for me in the past, for a similar setup is that I put some 1/4" material temporarily over/on the bunks and put the boat on the trailer. Then I crawled under the trailer (blocked of course :wink: ) and adjusted the center rollers up against the keel tight. Then I removed that 1/4" material. </p><p></p><p>In this way, they, the rollers can still be used to guide the boat up the trailer when launching or retrieving, but the majority of the weight of the hull is being born by the bunks - which it should be. IIRC I read this tip in a boat trailer setup manual somewhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaleH, post: 417693, member: 15636"] Like others, I'd leave as it. The keel is the spine or backbone of the boat, so it's good to have it supported. But like others have experienced here, rollers should not be the [i]primary means of support[/i] in a tin hull, or you can encoutner problems and bending of the hull among other things. What worked for me in the past, for a similar setup is that I put some 1/4" material temporarily over/on the bunks and put the boat on the trailer. Then I crawled under the trailer (blocked of course :wink: ) and adjusted the center rollers up against the keel tight. Then I removed that 1/4" material. In this way, they, the rollers can still be used to guide the boat up the trailer when launching or retrieving, but the majority of the weight of the hull is being born by the bunks - which it should be. IIRC I read this tip in a boat trailer setup manual somewhere. [/QUOTE]
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