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I don't think the Norman pin was designed to endure the stresses that would be imposed by trying to use it to winch up the boat. Did the fiberglass shop give you a reason to not use the original area for the bow eye. I would think if they did a proper repair there would be no reason to use another area. In any case, I'll bet some of the damage was due to someone trying to unscrew the eye on the outside instead of the eye on the inside because the outside eye has a pin that sits in a shallow hole drilled to hold it in position. Many people on this site have repaired their bow eye damage and put it back in the same spot. I would believe that Boston Whaler may have made the glass a little thicker both inside and outside the hull where the eye goes and it is the ideal place for the best leverage when wrenching a boat back onto the trailer anyway. If I had no choice but to move it I would move it down rather than up. But the inside and outside faces of the hull are parallel where the eye is located from the factory so that's the best location.