Hope I'm never in these shoes

[SkunkBoat]

I always used the winch cable and safety chain on the bow eye and a strap over the stern. After seeing that V20 accident, as an added precaution, I started using the anchor chain thru the bow roller, shackled to the trailer...in case the bow eye fails.

I note about the strap over the stern...
when I had a 16' aluminum boat, I was making a tight turn and the trailer wheel rode up a very tall curb. I saw it and went REAL SLOW thinking it would be OK.
As the trailer straightened out of the turn it went up on one wheel and fell over.

Luckily I had the strap on. Boat stayed attached to trailer. We jumped out, , flipped her back up, threw the fishing rods back into the boat, secured the hitch and got back in the truck before the light turned green.

Point is... don't rely just on gravity. An accident, a bump, a swerve, a failure of the bow eye and the boat will move...