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I ran without the yellow rope until I hit a highway bump at freeway speed and the bow rose up and off the winch roller. You can see how the roller is distorted from riding that way for unknown number of miles until I spotted it. I now have a strong tie to the frame.
The boat came with two straps that went from the same eye hook on the trailer frame to eye bolts on the bak of the boat at the same elevation as my home port Orofino. It did not seem to me they would do much to hold the boat on the trailer in a big highway bump, so I went to the clete as shown. I considered a strap that would wrap across the whole cockpit from one side to the other with just one large winch. I rejected that because using the boat for camping (boater-homing") you would need to remove it to get in the boat.
It seems to me most boats are inadequately tied down to trailer. I'm the 3rd owner, and the boat came to me with three tie downs: 1) the bow chain to the winch and two tired straps on the back that went to the frame. They kept the boat from sliding off the trailer, but the only thing keeping the boat from going forward in a sudden (or worse) stop was the winch post. I added a ring to the frame and add two winch straps to the center of the boat that should keep it going forward very far.
"Bridge on edge showing underside and wood piece that keeps it in place.
"Bridge" view from cockpit of boat.
"Bridge over the splash-well from the swim step to the cockpit of boat. 3/4" plywood, epoxied & painted. Green paint has sharp silica sand for traction. Bridge must be kept slid to outside when boating. You can see crunch on white edge where hydrolic steering arm crunched it when it moved too far to the center of the boat. Note large "Sierra" fuel filter. Filter which came with boat gave problems and left me to be towed in one time. I replaced the original filter with this inexpensive one that still filters out water. I replace filter canister yearly and no problem for last 6 years.
Access from ground. We tried several methods of getting in the boat when "boater-homing" but none worked well with my wife's short legs. Finally this step stool and the swim step worked best. See next photo on the necessary "bridge".
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"Bridge on edge showing underside and wood piece that keeps it in place.

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I hollowed out the foam from under the V berth. I entered froml the side first, and found that it was almost impossible to work in there, so I then entered from the top. Glad I did both. Used Tempress hatches. The first set were "slam" catchs, and due to the very slight curved of the wall, they would not stay closed. So they ended up on top, and "cam" latches on the vertical sides.
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