For a long time, I have been amazed at how simple it could be for someone to steal a boat considering the design of today's trailers.
Most have a coupler double thru bolted onto the tongue of the trailer. All the locks in the world on the hitch or coupler lever, etc will not prevent someone from just unscrewing the two thru bolts and just installing another $15 coupler in 3 minutes and bam! your boat is gone.
So I wrote a letter to MasterLock:
"I own a 19' boat and although I have both a MasterLock coupler handle lock and a coupler hitch lock, it would be still simple to just unbolt the whole coupler and steel the boat if they had a spare coupler on hand.
Hasn't anyone ever considered this? Why not design keyed coupler thru bolts or lockable ones?
Just seems like this has been a major oversite for....well....forever!
PS non of the trailer hitch lockable thru bolts are the proper size to do the job."
Has anyone ever come across a product that could lock the coupler onto the tongue of the trailer
I'll let you know what the folks at MasterLock have to say.
Molar