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NOTES TO SELF:
* Never, never unhook safety chains 'til ready for the boat to actually slide back off trailer.
* Place signficant others at safe distance from any incipient disasters
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Hauling the Seafari out at a Cape Cod ramp this past Friday the winch cable snapped about 2" from the hook when the bow was just about ready to kiss the bow stop. She slid right back down into the water. With the cable gone I put the hook on the safety chain and drove the boat up to the stop, just to get off the ramp.
I can assure you I will always take the safety chain on and off at the bottom of the ramp, not the top. Some rust on the 1/4" cable yes, but really did not look that bad. And I just went through and replaced virtually all the hardware on the trailer over the winter with ss, also the rollers but left the cable alone thinking it was fine. Good advice above.