Hope I'm never in these shoes

[smokeonthewater]

Notice that a bunch of those accidents were caused by fishtailing...
Poor trailer setup with too little tongue weight.

[bradford]

Roller trailers too.

[step up here]

Looks to me that he will get his transom repaired by the insurance carrier from his vehicle!!!!!

[Tunnaman88]

my boat is on a roller trailer.. should i be nervous? what should i look for as far as safety goes? What should should i look for on the tongue? My v is on a single axle, karavan.. new rollers, springs & hubs .. tires

[3 Squids]

I think as long as you have proper tongue weight, your bow eye is in good shape and a transom strap you'd be fine. But freak, unforeseen things could happen, just gotta pray they don't happen to you.

[Tunnaman88]

...living on the Cape in mass, my travel time is limited to 15 minutes in either direction to hit water.. lol. I do not travel very fast. Besides, its strapped in for a roller coaster ride with bow straps, safety chains etc..

[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...

[1224bret]

Just looked at my bow eye last weekend... Went to remove it and the 34 year old piece of mild steel wellcraft used as a backing plate and it crumbled to dust when I tried to remove it. After removal found that the u bolt was bent and corroded also. So new project for the coming weekend I guess

[SkunkBoat]

I re-did mine with a big thick aluminum backing plate this spring.
It was not safe, really needed it.