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Need a reason to tie your boat down??? Watch this (4 mins)
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<blockquote data-quote="fishmonger" data-source="post: 416423" data-attributes="member: 20379"><p>About a year ago I had been on the water all day. I was tired, hot and hungry and got back to the ramp around dusk. While loading my boat the trailer tongue, which had seen way too much saltwater, broke almost totally off. I remembered I had paid Sea Tow an extra $20 for road service and after waiting two hours the flatbed gets there. I had the winch strap and safety chain on the bow with 2 tie downs on the stern. The driver put a hook on the trailer frame, winched it onto the bed and put two tie down chains on the rear of the frame. Good to go ... or so I thought. By now it's around 10 pm and I'm really tired, hot and hungry and I think the driver was also because we both failed to realize the bow was not very secure due to the tongue that was ready to fall off. By the time we got to the boat yard all the tie downs on the boat were ready to fall off and the boat had shifted a foot to one side. Luckily we only had to go 5 miles or I would have been included in that video !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishmonger, post: 416423, member: 20379"] About a year ago I had been on the water all day. I was tired, hot and hungry and got back to the ramp around dusk. While loading my boat the trailer tongue, which had seen way too much saltwater, broke almost totally off. I remembered I had paid Sea Tow an extra $20 for road service and after waiting two hours the flatbed gets there. I had the winch strap and safety chain on the bow with 2 tie downs on the stern. The driver put a hook on the trailer frame, winched it onto the bed and put two tie down chains on the rear of the frame. Good to go ... or so I thought. By now it's around 10 pm and I'm really tired, hot and hungry and I think the driver was also because we both failed to realize the bow was not very secure due to the tongue that was ready to fall off. By the time we got to the boat yard all the tie downs on the boat were ready to fall off and the boat had shifted a foot to one side. Luckily we only had to go 5 miles or I would have been included in that video ! [/QUOTE]
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