Posted: May 03, 2005 10:20 am Post subject: Prop guard question
I have a buddy that has a Pro-Star 205. The prop guard (or whatever you call it) on the bottom of his trailer scrapes everytime he goes in or out of driveways, big dips etc.. Has anyone found a fix for this? We have seen other boats with some sort of caster(s) mounted to the bottom of the guard, is anyone doing this?
I have a very steep driveway and had to use 2x10's under the wheels to get my boat up it. My driveway is steep enough that adjusting the height of the hitch would not have helped much, probably would have made it worse since it would get hung up on the curb if it were any lower.
After finding the thread posted above i made some wheel brackets on the side of the prop guard. The setup i made is very similar to what Dorsey uses on their trailers. The wheels like boatmate uses would be a lot easier to make, but when i made mine i didn't quite trust the strength of the horizontal section of the prop guard to support the weight of the trailer. It probably would be fine, i just tend to overbuild things.
Now i can get the boat up or down the driveway without having to worry about the trailer getting hung up on the prop guard. And no more scraping the prop guard while driving around. If you want i can get some pictures of what i did. the paint doesn't even come close to matching what was on the trailer, so it isn't pretty but it works great.
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