[waterboy222]

the scratches on the tongue are from the trailer whipping back and forth into the safety chains (before they gave up).. Notice the eyelet where the safety chains hook? Those were about 3" long right before it hit the ground. The entire trailer rode it out on those two little tabs.. the electric breakaway controller was between them and there wasnt a scratch on it! we just plugged the key back in and felt the brakes relax, lifted it back up, swapped hitches, devised a safety chain and hit the road.. (oh, and cleaned the $$$$ out of the seats and the redbull off the windshield!)

I remember Brad screaming "BIGDADDY IT CAME OFF!!! IT CAME OFF!!" I was like "what came off??" and then BANG, jerk, boom, scrape.. I looked in the rearview and all i could see was the nose of the boat aiming down (and smoke and sparks!). And with it being a cut downdeck, it LOOKED like it was on the pavement with NO trailer to be seen! I thought the axles ripped out of it coming across the bridge and the boat was slidin behind us.. Talk about a sick feeling in your stomach!