Thanks for your help Red and bunk trailer it is. I was going to change out the rusty roller hardware but will buy wood instead. Do you use 2 or 4 bunks or maybe one long 4x4 and do you set the bunks too the outboard strakes which are the ones that are bent. The outboard strakes have no inside support so I think the rollers did them in and the inboard strakes with the stringers on top are good and straight. Gordy
Here's my thoughts on you moving the rollers out, think about this.
The keel and strake areas is the most rigid part of the hull, that's why the bunks on trailers set on, or right next to the strakes.
The roller trailers, I'm sure you know now, are not good for these boat, but they are alright, kinda, for the later model, thicker hulls, and foam filled hulls of boats of today, and most boats of today have a box like structure under the floor, not just stringers, like our boats.
I believe the you told me you removed the foam logs that was under the floor when you put the new floor in, because they were water soaked, that would also indicate the possibility of moisture being introduced into the stringer bed's, causing bond loss to the hull, pretty common in these boats because the fiberglass layment to the original stringers did not reach all the way to the top of the stringers. I have uncovered several of these boats that the fiberglass layment to the stringers was no longer bonded to the stringers at all, and stringers that has lost that bond to the hull.
If the stringer bond to the hull was lost on your boat, the rollers sitting forward of the stern, as they are, it is possible that the majority of the weight of the transom/motor/drive caused the transom/stern to "sag" because the bond to the stringers were lost, and possibly soft stringers back there.
All that to say this ... the rollers placed between the keel and stringers, on the "steps" is risky business, knowing the hulls are thin, very flexible, can cause more disfiguration to the hull because there is no support between the floor and hull in your boat.
I would suggest to you, remove the rollers all together, place a carpeted bunk on the roller axles, then you got a bunk trailer.
The bunks would be east to connect to the roller axles by using a metal "loop" something like a loop bracket you would attach
pvc pipe of conduit to a wall, I've done that in the past, and have a trailer here now that I will do that on before the boats leaves here for California, the Larson hard top, the roller trailer also caused the hull to be deformed on that boat. I just bought a roller trailer I am converting to a flat bed to haul my Jeep on, the roller assy frame was easy to remove, and has holes drilled in the main frame to re-position the roller frame forward or backwards, if your trailer has that option, you could easily move the roller assy frame backwards to extend the bunks to the stern of your boat, or even extend the bunks past the stern 1" , that would be my suggestion.
I found the bow down problem thanks to Red. The trailer bent the strakes, It's to short, a roller trailer and the rollers rested on the strakes most of the time for 20 years. I see why Glastron put bunk trailers under the Scimitar. My boat was sent to me with a new roller trailer and I didn't know better. Checked the foam along the ski locker sides and very dry and moved the rollers out and enjoy seeing good out the windshield bow down. Thanks for your help Red.
