I have a question regarding a difficult situation I am in. I recently discovered that the side of 22Ve' is deeply gouged in the hull/gel coat from my trailer. A few weeks back I had some difficulty loading onto the trailer, which I believe I had the trailer to deep in the water. The back of the boat rode up on top of the fender bunk on the trailer and I could then see these gouges in the hull. I of corse got extremely pisssss
, thinking we had done something wrong. After having time to calm down and study the situation, it made no sense to me how that could cause this damage. The damage is concealed by the fender bunk when loaded on the trailer and is under the water line when in the water, so my best look is by feel when running my hand over it when the boat is in the water. There are what seems to be 4 or 5 12" to 15" long gouges in the hull on the side just above the bottom edge. On our next time out, after putting the boat in the water I inspected the trailer and found there are screws that hold the carpeted bunks on the trailer fenders and they are installed from the carpeted side into the fender towards the tire (head of the screw is on the hull side of the carpeted bunk). Well the culprit screw was sticking out and was full of gel coat shavings where it had been digging in the side of the hull. I now realize that this probably has been there since we got the boat a couple of months ago and has been reoccuing over and over by the simple act of unloading the boat into the water, driving it off the trailer, as the back end kicks over to the right it has to ride against this fender and also that guide pole. I just happen to be able to see it that night that it sat on top of the fender, because normally that fender covers that area. I have called my dealer and e-mailed him pictures, that was about 2 weeks ago, and I must say I am getting a little impatient. He sounded confident that he could get the trailer co. (EZLoader custom) to take care of it, but with the long time passing lack of a response in 2 weeks I am now getting very concerned. Take a look at the pics, what would you do?
, thinking we had done something wrong. After having time to calm down and study the situation, it made no sense to me how that could cause this damage. The damage is concealed by the fender bunk when loaded on the trailer and is under the water line when in the water, so my best look is by feel when running my hand over it when the boat is in the water. There are what seems to be 4 or 5 12" to 15" long gouges in the hull on the side just above the bottom edge. On our next time out, after putting the boat in the water I inspected the trailer and found there are screws that hold the carpeted bunks on the trailer fenders and they are installed from the carpeted side into the fender towards the tire (head of the screw is on the hull side of the carpeted bunk). Well the culprit screw was sticking out and was full of gel coat shavings where it had been digging in the side of the hull. I now realize that this probably has been there since we got the boat a couple of months ago and has been reoccuing over and over by the simple act of unloading the boat into the water, driving it off the trailer, as the back end kicks over to the right it has to ride against this fender and also that guide pole. I just happen to be able to see it that night that it sat on top of the fender, because normally that fender covers that area. I have called my dealer and e-mailed him pictures, that was about 2 weeks ago, and I must say I am getting a little impatient. He sounded confident that he could get the trailer co. (EZLoader custom) to take care of it, but with the long time passing lack of a response in 2 weeks I am now getting very concerned. Take a look at the pics, what would you do?
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