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.