Thanks Ian for the advice. Much appreciated. I recall last year considering moving the swinging arm forward but decided not to as it would then hit the next cross beam. Thinking about it though it should not matter as the arm does not need to swing downward towards the front of the trailer. Only to the rear. My only other concern is it might then expose the main side bars of the trailer to the boat when approaching the trailer. Right now you will safely hit the rollers before anything else. But I will take a close look at this. I'm not sure about load on the axles. I think I mentioned lowering the jockey wheel to release the weight on the rear axle so I could lift the hitch by hand and get a feel for how much hitch weight there was. Given a big chunk of the engine is still behind the axles I am sure there is still plenty of weight on both. The towball height is an interesting thought too. I think the trailer looks pretty flat when hitched up, so as you say perhaps quite a neutural setup. Can t quite get my head around how such a massive lump of iron in the engine bay can be cancelled out by the relative lightweight hull of the boat in front of the axles.
Is there any problem with butting the axles too far back in terms of stability?
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