"QLW" wrote in message ...
Here's another way to get a boat off a trailer.
After hurricane Alicia, my daughter way bringing our 25' sailboat back from
a friends house on "high ground" when the trailer decided to part company
with her truck. The trailer ran down into the water logged drainage ditch
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So that we can avoid this disaster ourselves, what was the status of
the safety chains and what caused the apparent decoupling?

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