At Sequim Bay last year (John Wayne Marina parking lot), some sleaze ball stole the bow stop off our trailer. Sooo...when we came back from a wonderful CBGT (aren't they all?) on Sunday afternoon, needing to drive back to Fall City, we TRIED padding it up with everything we can think of, cinched her up and took off...in retrospect, the best thing to stuff in there would have been a fender, but that did not occur to us. Long and short, the vibration tore everything up, the boat suffered major gelcoat damage which it cost us a bundle to fix. That is of course the good thing about fiberglass - the C-Dory guys made it good as new. But we were pretty depressed at the time...