Originally Posted by
Jtreed99
Thanks all. I had a local fabricator cut the stand down 3 inches. Just touches the bow with very little pressure. Still drops off ever so slightly on the steepest ramps but will only just “touch” the replaceable nose section of tm mount and doesn’t get anywhere near the the tm foot or transducer anymore. All is now right with the world and it loads and unloads almost like it’s supposed to. Not sure why MM chose to oversized the stand so severely not why they chose to build trailers that would be dunked in water out of tube.