As you can see from the pictures, I have a 1999 2100V that I have to park on the street in front of my house. The street in front of my house is level; we are not on a hill. Compared with my old boat & trailer, the bow of this boat has always sat ridiculously low to the ground when on the trailer.
Lately I've had some problems with my cover leaking a bit, despite having bought a custom fitted Sunbrella cover just 2 years ago. We had a nasty rainstorm a few weeks ago....I checked on the boat after a couple hours of rain and found (to my horror) that there was more than an inch of standing water in the bow. I jacked the boat up as high as possible and drained all the water out as soon as the rain stopped, then took the cover off to let it dry as much as possible. Obviously, I am going to reseal the cover with a spray that I bought at West Marine, but I'd like to guarantee that if water does get into the boat it quickly goes out the back.
Compared with my old boat & trailer, the bow of this boat has always sat ridiculously low to the ground when on the traileI currently have a Fulton swivel jack with a travel of about 10", and its pretty beat up and in need of replacement. I have temporarily put a couple of bricks (10" total in height) under the swivel jack's front wheel. This is a terribly ghetto, temporary solution. Can anyone recommend a jack to raise the boat off the ground as far as possible without having to bother with bricks under wheels? Ideally I'd like the trailer to be 28" or more off of the ground. I don't really care if the jack has wheels on the bottom, as they're nearly useless with a tandem axle trailer anyways.
OnBricks.jpgTrailerJack.jpg
I considered something like this, but I think the jack is incompatible with the boat....my current jack only has 8 inches of clearance until the top of the jack would hit the bottom of the hull.
ReplacementJack.jpg
Lately I've had some problems with my cover leaking a bit, despite having bought a custom fitted Sunbrella cover just 2 years ago. We had a nasty rainstorm a few weeks ago....I checked on the boat after a couple hours of rain and found (to my horror) that there was more than an inch of standing water in the bow. I jacked the boat up as high as possible and drained all the water out as soon as the rain stopped, then took the cover off to let it dry as much as possible. Obviously, I am going to reseal the cover with a spray that I bought at West Marine, but I'd like to guarantee that if water does get into the boat it quickly goes out the back.
Compared with my old boat & trailer, the bow of this boat has always sat ridiculously low to the ground when on the traileI currently have a Fulton swivel jack with a travel of about 10", and its pretty beat up and in need of replacement. I have temporarily put a couple of bricks (10" total in height) under the swivel jack's front wheel. This is a terribly ghetto, temporary solution. Can anyone recommend a jack to raise the boat off the ground as far as possible without having to bother with bricks under wheels? Ideally I'd like the trailer to be 28" or more off of the ground. I don't really care if the jack has wheels on the bottom, as they're nearly useless with a tandem axle trailer anyways.
OnBricks.jpgTrailerJack.jpg
I considered something like this, but I think the jack is incompatible with the boat....my current jack only has 8 inches of clearance until the top of the jack would hit the bottom of the hull.
ReplacementJack.jpg
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