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Replace the worn-out bow stop on your boat trailer with this heavy-duty rubber Y-stop. Stop acts as a bumper to keep your boat from hitting your trailer winch when loading. Y-shape contours to hull to help cradle boat during trailering.
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Ryan: Hey everybody, my name's Ryan. And here at Etrailer, we install, test fit, and review a lot of different parts, that way we could try to answer any questions those of you might have. And that's exactly what we're doing here today. We're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the line of Yates heavy duty rubber Y-style bow stops for boat trailers. So a bow stop is a simple, yet pretty important component to have on your boat trailer. It's going to do a couple things.
It's going to help prevent you from overshooting whenever you put your boat back on the trailer, whenever you pull it out of the water. And it's also going to help provide just a little bit of support, a little bit of cushion here in the front, whenever you're towing your boat down the road, that way it's not getting jostled around and hitting any metal, anything like that. It's just going to be there to help keep everything riding nice and smooth.So the reason today that we actually replaced the bow stop is you could take a quick look at the original one, and easily tell that it has seen better days. I mean, this thing is so worn out. It probably really wasn't doing any good up here.
So this one is definitely an improvement, and should make things go a little bit smoother. Now with that being said, this is a really thick, heavy duty rubber. So I don't really see it wearing out super fast. So you should get some good years out of it. With that being said, though, this rubber could potentially leave scuffs.
On this old aluminum fishing boat, really not too concerned with it, but if you have a fiberglass boat, especially, for example, it's something you might want to think about.However, there's another bow stop available, and this one's made from a different material and is scuff proof. So if leaving marks here are something you really don't want, you could always use this as an alternative, and that'll prevent any scuffs from happening. So overall, I actually think this turned out pretty nice. Just give me a little bit more confidence whenever I'm trailering the boat, I'm not going to have to worry about overshooting it as much or anything like that. And just whenever I'm trailering it down the road, the rubber actually contours pretty nicely to the bottom of the boat when you tighten everything down.So it should really provide a good cushion, if you will, whenever I am hitting bumps and things like that.
And just going to do a good job of keeping everything in place. Now, as far as the installation goes, it's relatively simple, really not a whole lot involved. One thing I do want to mention is you may have to pick up some new hardware. Doesn't come included with that hardware. But if your original hardware will work and is in good shape, by all means, you can go ahead and reuse that.So with all that being said, shouldn't take you a whole lot of time and really give you a whole lot of issues whenever you do go to put this on. Speaking of which, let's go ahead and do that together now. To begin your installation, you're first going to want to remove your old stop. So I went ahead and took that off and what I've actually done is just removed the whole bracket itself. And I did that because I think it'll be a little bit easier to get everything set up on here and kind of pushed into place.Ideally, you do this with your boat off the trailer. We're just kind of working around that. So I think it's going to be a little bit easier if I have everything somewhat bolted together, I might have a little more leverage to kind of push this up into place. Now, with that being said, keep in mind, every setup is going to be a little bit different. But for the most part, this should get you pointed in the right direction. So at this point, I'm just going to take our new stop, put it in our bracket, line the holes up. And I'm going to take our bolt, work it through to the other side.And what I think I'm going to do, is just tighten this down a little bit. So once I find where it needs to be, once it's on there, we can come back and tighten our bolt down. So now that we have our setup loosely assembled, I'll go ahead and put it into place here. Again, I think I'm just going to get everything hand tight for now, that way it'll kind of just rest in position, and we can get it exactly where we want it. So I found that everything fit best with our bracket down as far as it can go. And now I can position our bow stop.Now our boat is on the trailer a little bit crooked, once I removed our strap it kind of came over. So this should sit more in the center, but I think once we put our strap back on it, it'll pull everything together nicely. But now I got a good idea on how I need to rotate our bow stop itself. So I'm going to kind of eyeball it. I think about there will be proper, then I'm going to snug it down. So now that we have everything tight, if I put a little bit of downward pressure, it looks like everything fits pretty good the way it should. So now that I'm certain I have it lined up where I want, I'm just going to go ahead and connect my winch back to it, and pull it back down on the trailer. That'll finish up our look at and our installation of the line of Yates Y-style heavy duty rubber bow stops for boat trailers..
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Ratings & Reviews
The Bow Stop was just as advertised and worked great. I hope to get many years out of it.
The product was exactly what I needed and the price was great! Also very fast shipping. The staff at etrailer made sure everything was right with the order and shipping. Full coverage from order to delivery.
Thanks!
Had a hard time finding these at my local boat stores was real happy to find them at etrailer.com. Super fast shipping and great customer service. Would shop here again.
etrailer saved me with this replacement part, and shipped it at a reasonable cost unlike other stores where the shipping cost was 4 times the price.
I received a call stating that my part was back ordered from etrailer and a lady asking if I still wanted it. This is the first time a company has ever done that. Most impressive. They actually got the part to me earlier then they said. Two thumbs up.
I own my boat for 18 years, Needed a replacement for my boat's stop on trailer. I took old one off and saw the name on it. Yates. Also the model number was molded in the product itself. I looked on the internet ,and located e-trailer.com found what needed made a phone call and my stop was on the way. Five minutes to take off, Five minutes to order. Five minutes to put on. shipped and received before the shipped date promised Five stars excellent service.
The rubber bumpers were exactly as advertised. They arrived well packed and shipped quickly. I looked for these in my local area and could not find them. I shopped the internet and found etrailer.com. The items were reasonably priced, in stock and easy to order.I'm very happy with them and will do business with etrailer.com again.
ordered parts and arrived as described ..images with dimensions helped a lot.using for pwc bow stops
Keith
11/13/2017
working great as all the parts from Etrailer
I was very impressed with the great service, excellent products, and end results after assembling my boat trailer with the parts ordered from Etrailer. Shipping was fast. Very reasonable prices. Will definitely order thru this company again and have already referred friends of mine to have them take a look at your site.
Photos after assembled . Picture of new and old, old one is 16 years old.
will fit my small trailer Thanks
Excellent product well built. Very good service and Very fast shipping. Would gladly do business with e-trailer again.
Lenzie H.
8/13/2016
Great
I love it Just what I was Looking for Thanks to you all that Get this stuff right for People Like Me
I looked and looked for this particular product locally but found nothing. Then I turned to Google and found quite a few of the items I wanted in the $15 range, which seemed like too much to pay. That's when I found this item at Etrailer and with postage it was less than that! The service was great. The quality of the product is excellent and it got to my house in record time. What more could a consumer ask for?
Scott
10/19/2017
It has been a year and I use it all the time. No problems. It works well and will probably last a long, long time. Thanks.
It's exactly what I wanted.And it arrived promptly
High quality perfect fit
Ronny
9/27/2025
Still looks like new no signs of wear from use or weather I’m expecting it to last as long as me
Kate F.
9/29/2025
Looks great
Just right and reasonable shipping. Quality parts and excellent service. Thanks and God Bless
Perfect fit
Perfect original manuf replacement.
I love it. I actually use this on my sailboat to block the mast forward.
Decent quality.
We called 3 times and left messages and also wrote an email that we wanted to cancel the order due to ordering the wrong item and got no response.
I did receive the y-block in the mail a few days ago. It has been cold, even down here in southern Oklahoma, so I did not get to put it on my trailer until today. I works great and I am very pleased with the product. I have included some pictures of the application that I am using if for as a lady named Laure asked for them. I tried to find a block locally, but they all wanted to sell me the entire transom saver and not just the part I needed. This works great and saved me a considerable amount of money. I will order parts again when and if the rollers on my boat trailer need replacing. Thank you!
This is a perfect fit, receiver is standard class III receiver size, this fit perfectly into it, and allowed me to run a bolt into it. Using it to capture the bow on my 28 foot Laser sailboat. Photo shows the receiver size this fit into. Enjoy my lovely spare (its been replaced)
James D.
6/12/2026
Glad to hear it was a perfect fit John! Thanks for sharing how you're using it to secure the bow of your Laser sailboat, that's great insight. We appreciate you including the photo showing the receiver size; details like that can be really helpful for other. We appreciate you choosing etrailer!
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William S.
1/23/2018
love it, thanks