WX2060 Fit in 84" High Garage Door?

I’m looking at purchasing a Skeeter WX2060, but storage situation may see me trying to fit it inside a garage door that is exactly 84″ high. Skeeter’s website has the “height on trailer” of the WX2060 as 84″. I was wondering if there are any WX2060 owners with real world examples you could share of if your WX2060 was able to just fit under the garage door opening. Did you find it to be almost exactly 84″ high, or a bit lower / higher when trailer is level?

Since we are looking for a home to buy, my situation is only temporary, and I may purchase a 12″ drop down hitch in an attempt to lower the boat’s windshield height as I back it into my garage… has anyone else needed to resort to this tactic?

The slab in front of my garage door also slopes down quite steeply from the door… that too may assist in lowering the effective height of the windshield as I try to guide it under my garage door header since I’d be lowering the trailer hitch even more. In your response, please let me know if the approach to your door is level or slops up or down from the door and if you feel that made a difference to you.

Thank you for your assistance… I’m just trying to judge how much effort I should be taking to have a back-up storage facility lined up just in case I arrive home with a new boat and find that it is indeed impossible to fit into my current garage.

I just measured one on our showfloor. Sitting level the top of the windshield measures 85″.
Im not sure you will gain much by raising or lowering the tongue as the front axel is very close to the highest point of the windshield.

Other thing to keep in mind with a steep approach is motor height may become an issue also.

I can’t remember where I seen it, either B.J. And The Bear or Smokey And The Bandit – but perhaps letting enough air out of the tires to get it in then fill them back up? (just remember to let the air out again when pulling it out again) lol

No idea if it would work. It worked on what ever TV/Movie I’m thinking of. The trucker needed to get their rig under an overpass while fleeing someone.

Now I’m feeling old.

I had the same concern. When I brought the boat home and put it the garage the windshield cleared by no more than an inch. The windshield walk thru must be closed. I have a Silverado 2500hd which sits a little higher than a 1500. So I turned my hitch over; changing it from a 3/4 rise to a 2 inch drop. The windshield clears just fine now and the boat tows better. It’s a great boat.

Thanks Mel… after reading Eric’s reply yesterday it was nice to wake up to a positive answer… not definitive in my case, but at least more positive. I’m not at all agreeable to airing up & airing down the tires every time I use the boat… I’d rather install a set of these on the trailer!

Eric… thanks for taking the time to do the measurement!

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Make sure your garage door clears the header when open. Good Luck

I talked to my garage door guy, and I’ll have him “on call” the day I bring my boat home just in case there are any clearance issues with any parts of the garage door, tracks, pulling arm, etc. He would install the 90 degree curved track with a 15″ radius instead of the current 12″ radius, and all parts would be raised 3″… clearing the header is the main issue.

Also on day 1 I’ll be attempting to garage the boat with no equipment and minimum gas in it’s tank. Truck will also not have a camper on it. I’ll be recreating the maximum height the boat will have on the trailer so the springs aren’t compressed and tongue is as high as it would ever be with a my standard hitch.