And the hits keep coming

[Van]

Originally Posted by zacs

yesterday at the ramp, I had the boat winched 99% up, and the strap snapped. i have a roller trailer so the boat started sliding back down. I jumped quick, yelled to warn anyone behind, and scrambled to get the bow line. tied a blowine connecting strap to hook, and winched her back up. 75% of the way back on, and the damn handle to the winch spun. ugh. the boat was far enough on that I tied down the bow line to trailer trailer, just so all the weight wasn't on the strap, and drove up on to flat land and had some help pushing the rest of the way onto the trailer....
hits always keep coming with this "hobby."

Years ago when I trailered my boat, I was waiting for this guy to get his on a roller trailer. I couldn't understand why it was taking him so long to winch it up. I got closer and saw he had a vice grip on the handle stud. Also the winch had no clicker so if lost it, it would spin and roll back down. We were killing ourselves laughing when he would lose it and the vice grip spin like crazy and would smack his knuckles.... time after time after time !!! Then some guy comes to help him by holding the boat by the bow rail to keep it from rolling back down,,, it was one of those sectional ones......snap.....tore it right out of the brackets, then the winch guy lets go and gets smacked in the knuckles again, while the other guy is standing there with his bow rail in his hands. I am laughing now remembering the sight and typing this........No cell phones back then, would have been a great vid.