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I moved the rear roller set six inches forward. It was actually very easy to do with a few jack stands and two jacks. Shorelander has all these predrilled holes. I could do this with the boat on the trailer by jacking it up at the transom just enough to make the roller frame move forward with...
You may have a faded VIN # on your trailer which makes it impossible to read and makes it hard to register the trailer.
I just read this about the trick of putting some charcoal powder on your finger and lightly wiping it over the vin sticker. Because the VIn sticker is typed on the foil or...
I always use a wide canvas strap with a winch tightener, wrap it around the circumference and lubricate the new tires. then I winch the tire down and thereby force the bottom of the tire outward to the point that it pushes onto the sides of the rim which is lubricated as well.. Only then do I...
The weather is not really on my side so I have not been out to work on the trailer, but when I looked at the trailer roller setup I realized that the seesaw setup of the trailer on the rear end is a set of four with the center where the seesaw center connects to the trailer is very close to the...
I did put on a a longer tongue bar on a shoreland'r Trailer just last week and mentioned this on another thread. Dingbat answered the thread and said that a 2 foot longer tongue bar increases deviation by up to 25%. that may cause the tail to wag the dog. Not being an engineer I do not...
I will go to a weight station and weigh the car + trailer and then the car with the trailer attached but not on the scale and last, the car only. That should give me the basic information that I need. I did move the axle about 3 inches farther backward. Maybe that will make the difference.
I'll...
I have restored a 1989 22 foot 4.3 liter Starcraft Islander sitting on a 1989 single axle Shoreland'r trailer and added 2 batteries (40 pounds each) and a Suzuki extra longshaft (125pounds) to the transom area.
In order to realign the weight distribution I pull the boat farther forward on the...
At least in Europe a lot of countries have gone from steam to electric in the fifties of the last century with overhead power lines and spring loaded contacts. The diesel electric trains were developed so they could use both systems and whenever they had to go onto tracks that had no electric...
The Lyman hydrofoils will come on plane completely out of the water on their skis, being about 10 times as energy efficient as the more tradional boats that most of us own. That is probably the first place where the electric outboard will be a reasonable alternative
For every boat like yours there are probably fifty that are on small lakes where the owners will go on a 10 or 12 mile cruise in the afternoon going maybe 10 mph. That is where you will see the move from gas to electric start happening
Electric cars had a range of maybe 20 miles just a few decades ago. Now they easily go 300 miles without a recharge and I for one will not be amazed at all if that becomes 1000 miles + within the next 10 years while the only thing holding it back being big business trying to stop that innovation...
I run a rig in the pacific out of Costa Rica and we go 25 to 30 km off shore. I use a 28 foot Mako with twin 200 horse yammies. It makes for safety, because you are all alone out there and safety and speed are important.
So I bought a nice Suzuki 9.9BTXW5 with side mound remote control for trolling for salmon and I am about to install it.
The electronics from the side mount do get me quite mixed up. There is the connection that goes straight from the side mount to the engine, that I presume holds the start/stop...
