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Should I keep the keel rollers?
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<blockquote data-quote="JL8Jeff" data-source="post: 449302" data-attributes="member: 12995"><p>My Lowe 1652 trailer has rollers and I don't see any sign of tincanning and it's really easy to load/unload. That's how I bought the boat/trailer. But my boat also spends 7-8 months of the year in the water at the dock, so it's not sitting on the trailer every day. The keel roller helps protect the boat when you first start to load it on the trailer at certain water levels so it's useful. Our boat ramp is not pretty and at an odd angle with a decent dropoff when the river is low. When the river is at certain level, you can't back far enough in and the keel roller actually does it's job. This is on a mod v hull, on a true flat bottom the keel roller probably doesn't do anything but it still might be nice to have for protection or if somebody else needed to borrow the trailer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JL8Jeff, post: 449302, member: 12995"] My Lowe 1652 trailer has rollers and I don't see any sign of tincanning and it's really easy to load/unload. That's how I bought the boat/trailer. But my boat also spends 7-8 months of the year in the water at the dock, so it's not sitting on the trailer every day. The keel roller helps protect the boat when you first start to load it on the trailer at certain water levels so it's useful. Our boat ramp is not pretty and at an odd angle with a decent dropoff when the river is low. When the river is at certain level, you can't back far enough in and the keel roller actually does it's job. This is on a mod v hull, on a true flat bottom the keel roller probably doesn't do anything but it still might be nice to have for protection or if somebody else needed to borrow the trailer. [/QUOTE]
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