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Hi, I just bought a used 2007 Fisherman 180 center console, after I towed the boat back last night, I found out the boat was not on the bow stops, instead it was on the metal as shown in the pictures attached, and some roller wheels in the back are outside of the boat transom, I believe when I drove back the boat, it was 4 hours drive, when I stopped or slowed down in a traffic, the boat just moved forward, the seller did not do a good job to put and fix the boat on the trailer, and my previous boat trailer was a bunker trailer, this is a roller trailer with double bow stops, I never dealt with this kind of trailer, now I am thinking using three jacks to lift the boat up so I can move the trailer forward to a good position, then release the jacks to put the boat down, my question is if I put two jacks in the back bottom of the boat, one on each side, since the boat is 2500lbs, only three small areas will be on the jack to support the whole boat, will that damage/crack the hull?

I already put one right on the front V shape with a rubber Y-bow stop on the jack and lifted up the front of the boat a little, and placed the bow onto the bow stops, it seems worked ok, now if I lift the whole boat with three jacks, it will be a different story.

So I need some advice from all the experienced boat owners.

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# points of contact will be fine just use a 2x4 or something similar so the metal jack stand isn't touching the fiberglass. I do it with my boat and it's almost 10,000 lbs There's nothing that different about a roller trailer , but your boat is to far forward as you know. That being said there is something hinky about that bow stop, both rubber bumpers should be touching the boat and to me it looks upside down and the winch looks like some after thought that was just thrown on to make it look good. Maybe look online or a marina or storage yard and find something similar and see how it's set up. Maybe some one in the forum with that type of bow stop will way in

Ok, great, finally I got somebody who jacked up the boat hull before, feel much better now to do this kind of lifting.
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CptBill wrote:Source of the post # points of contact will be fine just use a 2x4 or something similar so the metal jack stand isn't touching the fiberglass. I do it with my boat and it's almost 10,000 lbs There's nothing that different about a roller trailer , but your boat is to far forward as you know. That being said there is something hinky about that bow stop, both rubber bumpers should be touching the boat and to me it looks upside down and the winch looks like some after thought that was just thrown on to make it look good. Maybe look online or a marina or storage yard and find something similar and see how it's set up. Maybe some one in the forum with that type of bow stop will way in

So how many jacks did you use to raise up your 10,000 lbs boat?
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I see this is an 8 month old thread, but thought I could pipe in just in case it may help another in a similar situation

Bottom pic looks like the winch arm is probably oriented correctly, but missing a bolt that allowed it to move.

The winch cable should extend between the two stops and the upper stop should be above the winch eye on the bow, and winch eye positioned between the two stops. With cable and winch eye below the upper stop, it prevents the boat from moving forward in a hard stop (cable won't let winch eye go over / past upper stop).

If trying to pull the boat back on the trailer, I would secure the back of the boat to a tree, or something, using a strong strap to the two tie down eyes on the stern. Then slowly pull trailer forward until the boat is positioned back on the rollers correctly. Then reposition the bow stop properly.