BFRO #25368: Motorists describe boat on trailer being shaken violently at night near Lake Cowichan

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In Aug 2006 myself and my stepson and his girlfriend left to go fishing and crabbing in port renfrew bc. We had travelled about 15 to 20 kilos south past the mesachie lake turn off and decided to stop to relieve ourselves, due the bumpy road conditions. As always I made sure all the lights on the boat trailer were still working and that all tie downs were secure, we stopped for about 10 min then left, we proceeded about 250 meters and I stopped in the middle of the road so my stepson could put in a new cd into the player.I turned on the interior cab lights so he could see what he was doing. As he was searching for what he wanted to play the truck began to shake and lurch from side to side my stepson yelled at me saying were rolling off the road thinking that I was out of gear and rolling backwards. I assurred him that we were in park and my foot was on the brake and my forward vision correlated that we were not rolling but were being pushed and rocked sideways. My stepsons girlfriend who had the window seat yelled to me that the boat and trailer were being pushed toward the side of the road by something she could not see. I did not hesitate and put the truck in drive and punched the throttle fearing that we were in some kind of earthquake and land shift.We of course were quite shocked at what had just happened. I stopped some kilos up the road to check on the boat and trailer but without lights the only evidence at that time were that the trailer lights were not working and that the boat was sitting twisted on the trailer. We found a campsite that night and in the morning upon inspection of the trailer and boat we found that the main safety latch at the front of the boat was stretched and useless and the nylon winch cable was split. The tie downs at back of the boat were stretched and torn also. We left the same day after a quick fish and found that the road in the area were we all hoped find road damage was not to be.We thought maybe a bear tried to get in the boat but found no claw marks on the boat. Anyway the crab bait we had was in the truck bed near the cab.

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