Quote Originally Posted by rme hunter View Post
I actually had a friend who had a ski boat, he would not unstrap his boat until he was right at the edge of the water. Once I asked him about it and he thought I was crazy. He actually thought that his boat may slide off the trailer while backing in. This was a 24foot with an inboard V8. You couldn't have drug that thing off with a truck.

That is why people do that dumb stuff they just don't know.
Hunter I had a couple of my friends that were backing their boat down the ramp at Beaver Creek in Cumberland and they had all straps loose. So some where part of the way down the ramp... Woops boat came sliding off. And to make things worse one of them had borrow it from his Father N Law. Just the ideal of lossing the boat off trailer would have done my night in let on having to go and tell my Father N law about it but not these guys they pushed the boat on down the ramp and still went fishing. Boat was a Tracker aluminum boat and not that old either. So I might loose all other straps and have the plug in but I do not release the main strap till I am ready to put in. Better safe then sorry.