I did a dumb thing the other day. Tried to climb up the stern ladder without any jackstands under the trailer or the tongue locked onto the hitch ball. Safety chains were hooked to the hitch and they popped loose at two welding points when the bow went airborne. Lucky those chains weren't needed on the highway or I might have had a boat sailing into oncoming traffic. Last June one of the brackets that holds a fender snapped cleanly in two under no more duress than driving down a city street. Are these trailers falling apart? I assume it's one of those Ken's that came with my '87 h23. Mac