"irbfishin" wrote in message: "I am considering one of these spring loaded
bow locking devices at BPS. Looks like it would make loading the boat
easier especially when fishing solo. does anyone here have experience with
this or similar product? Is it a gimmick or does it work as well as they
claim?"


I stop on the side the road the other day to assist another fellow boater
that had one of boat buddy hook up on his boat and trailer. The eyelet had
broken at the bolt. It look like the part that was still in the boat buddy
had been smashed. I though to my self he must have hit the locking
mechanism really hard to break the eyelet and never realized it until he was
on his way home and the bow of the boat wanted to lift up.

Sarge