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Guide-on posts make it easy to load your boat onto your trailer and back your trailer down the ramp. They attach to the rear of your trailer and extend out of the water, providing visual targets to center the boat between during loading.
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Note: Check with your state Department of Transportation for restrictions regarding maximum trailer width.
Guide Your Boat Into and Out of the Water with Ease
When your boat trailer has been backed down the ramp and is partially submerged, these 60" tall guideposts that are mounted on the rear corners of the frame will stick out of the water, giving you 2 highly visible targets to guide your boat between for loading. The PVC pipes also provide a visual aid to help you back your boat trailer down the ramp when you're unloading and loading your boat.
Installation
The posts are simple to install. Slide the PVC pipes over the pre-galvanized steel support posts. Then mount the posts on the top or below the trailer frame, as close to the rear corners as possible. Adjust the posts so that the distance between each post and your boat is less than 1".
Pre-Galvanized Steel
Pre-galvanized steel parts are stamped from a sheet of steel after it has already been galvanized. The edges of pre-galvanized parts often lose their zinc coating during the stamping process. Because of the thinness of the coating (less than 1 mil) and the fact that the edges remain exposed, pre-galvanized parts can begin to oxidize and rust quickly, so it's recommended that they be primed and painted.
Customer Satisfaction Score:
98% were satisfied with this product
2% of customers were not satisfied
Ratings & Reviews
These Guide-Ons were easy to install and fit my trailer perfectly.
Haven't tried these out yet but did get them installed. The PVC tube was extremely hard to get on. I had to beat it with a hammer and piece of wood and the slit didn't line up properly so that was a bummer. No way to take it off it's so tight. It actually cut into the PVC on the 4 corners so it will have to be cut off if ever taken off. That is disappointing. We will see how it works when I go to the lake but I'm assuming it will work as it should.
Perfect fitment, great quality and on time shipping! Keep up the great work Etrailer
Fast shipping, heavy duty construction and easy to install!
Part Vibrated the screws loose and fell off the trailer.
These have strong metal supports and are very easy to install. I didn't need the full 60 inch height. I was able to trim the PVC down to 48 inch without the metal support being too long. I had lighted caps from a previous pole set. It was easy to run the wires up the inside of the PVC and outside the metal supports.
Should make putting my sailboat on the trailer much much easier thanks for all your help
Overall everything was good with the exception of the cap that goes on the top, I was tapping it on with a rubber hammer and it broke in a few pieces? Is it possible to get another cap? Thanks
great product. It fit perfectly and correspondence with Ric D was extremely helpful!
Product was easy to install. Did think the plastic piping seemed to be a little snuck and had to be tapped on.
I recieved the guide-ons very quickly. Installing them is very easy out of the box. It took me longer because I added a 1 1/2" od aluminum pipe between the 2 guides for added stability. The pipe slid into the square tubing and they are rock solid now. We took the boat out for the first time with the guide-ons and it helps with loading the boat greatly. I could not see my trailer behind my truck before without the boat on it. Now backing down the ramp is a breeze to retrieve the boat. I could have gone with the shorter poles but I'm glad I didn't. The more visibility the better.
The extra width of this model worked beautifully for my sailboat. I have a cat boat with a wide beam and needed the wider brackets to extend for the middle width of the boat. The guide on’s worked perfectly. Without them loading was a pain and took multiple times loading. The posts gave me a once and for all perfect load. Very pleased!
I am very pleased. The guides arrived very quickly -like two days -and were easy to install.
I have ordered everything for my used trailer including spare tire, trailer hitch receiver and the ball mount. The ball mount gave me an 8in rise which is what I needed for my Toyota Tacoma.
Etrailer follows up and does a great job.
Great guides for out 21’ Precision sailboat. Helps to assure that we align the keel with the channel in the trailer, Good Product. If I bought them again Id buy the lighted caps.
Great product fast shipping
After reading other reviews I wasn't sure about the height...but it turns out 60" was perfect for me. I mounted them below the frame and I have a taller hull than the picture, so mine don't stick up quite that tall. They are super easy to install, and provide great targeting lines for whoever is trailering the boat. I am now rethinking the light kit on top, just because other vehicles on the road have a tendency not to look down at the trailer lights, so they don't see the turn signals as well. I included a picture taken the day they were installed (not great quality).
Look to be good quality and strong, made in USA which is a major plus. Only complaint is the manufacturer needs to apply something to end of steel tubing to prevent damage to the PVC poles during shipping
Brian
6/3/2023
Works great, I am able to get my 18 foot Bayliner centered on trailer by myself and just pull out of water no problem. I float boat into position and pull it up last few feet with winch, if you are under power and hit hard they may bend, but perfect for my needs.
GREAT product. Installed it and first time out it was worth the investment. got the boat on the trailer first shot and these are sturdy as well. strongly recommend this system for any trailered boat
Ryan S.
6/7/2018
The product after a year it has worked flawlessly. I enclosed some pictures for you. Use them if you would like for promotional purposes or design.
Very pleased so far (two outings) with our new trailer guides! We put these on our dual Trailmaster trailer for our Starcraft 221 I/O. I was a bit worried that they wouldn't fit at first, but they *just* squeaked on the rearmost portion of the beam. Installation was very straightforward (nice video you guys put together on this!), the construction is solid, and it was easy enough to tweak the width to get them to a good point for our boat.
Our two recoveries this year have gone very well - much better than last year, our "virgin" season - as it helps to have the visual guide, as well as the posts to keep the rear of the boat from drifting off the center of the trailer. My spouse really likes these, and we are cautiously optimistic that this will make our boat recoveries much less stressful!
should help on windy days and make it easier to back empty trailer after dark easy installation about45 minutes
Very nice product Easy installation
Well made sturdy guide posts.
Quick delivery on the trailer guides, easy installation on my galvanized trailer, although the product fit perfectly, I was not sure if the steel parts were galvanized so I decided to clear coat all the parts. Not a deal breaker looks good.
Rich L.
2/27/2019
Overall pleased but had one issue with one guide bar collapsing where it bends, after a reinforcement was added seems to be holding up. Needs to be thicker material in that area.
Running into issues with the install. Unfortunately your customer service tech was not too helpful, courteous but not very helpful.
I have a Triton trailer, tandem axle, sidesteps in front & behind wheel fender. Doesn't appear to be a good place for the install unless half way up the boat.
Any recommendations on the install? Previous customers with Triton trailers? I don't prefer "cutting" a hole or notch into my fender as the tech recommended.
Thanks for your response.
Heather A.
12/29/2017
Anthony,Thank you for your review.I have contacted CE smith and the only way to install these guide-ons on your Triton is to drill two holes through the rear step so the mounting bracket can sit on top of the step and the u-bolts will go around the frame. It cant go under the step because it is too wide and the post would be too far from the boat. I hope this helps.
It was almost impossible to put the Triton on the trailer alone, especially on a windy day. These guides are a great help.
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Jim S.
3/24/2018
They work but mine hit a tree branch and bend them down, I can bend them back up but they just seem to move around a lot. Not real solid but I still like them.