Glad everyone is alright. Truck is toast, but boat looks repairable, if the stringers are not all busted up.

We know them - someone was certainly watching over them that morning. They had an adult friend and their young son with them in the truck. Unbelievable that they walked away. They were on their way home from the Kuttawa Cannonball Run.
According to Tony, it appears, at this point, that the boat is fixable.

All IN, do you know if he has a strap on the front of the boat pulling back? The reason I ask is a buddy had friends killed years ago in a very similar wreck, they were not as lucky. Since that time I always have one pulling back and connecting to the trailer frame.

I always wondered if it would be enough.

As for the boat itself, looks like he will get a blueprinted bottom and a new custom paint job.

Turned that Ram into a (soft) Taco!
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...530ef877a0.jpg

My guess is the straps were being stressed to the limit by his emergency braking. I noticed the trailer had EoH brakes, and I bet he was hard on the brakes, even if it was just for very brief moment(s). Then the impact was enough to shear off the winch stand and any forward straps if they were present. When I had a big boat on a bolt-together trailer like that. I had a strap setup vertically to hold the boat and trailer together. When I got the welded trailer, that's when I went to straps holding the boat back. It's a solid practice to have them holding the boat back for sure. Also notice, that due to the short trailer frame, the rear straps were actually pulling the boat forward (if they were even present).

From their FB page:

https://scontent.fden3-1.fna.fbcdn.n...e6&oe=5F1A47E7

I wonder if he hit the little car, in Indiana I was told before that if you wreck avoiding the car/ truck they will not even put them on the report. Meaning you get stuck with all costs.

It happened to me I called BS the cop send his "Superior" out to the site that said the same thing.

T boned car in passenger side.

There has to be a collision with a vehicle for that vehicle to be listed on an actual accident report as an involved vehicle. It can be documented in other ways in the report narrative.

Missed That wonder how the other people are.

Glad everyone is ok
regarding a strap on the front pulling back/down
Aggressive controlled braking can produce g force of a little over .5 g, emergency braking in dry conditions with good tires can get over .75gs, lots of variables though
so without taking into consideration the friction on the bunks, the load applied to the front tie down would be approx 3/4 of the total weight of the boat
The 3300 working load 2" nylon straps have a max break strength of 10,000lbs
so a 13,500 lb boat under emergency braking can in theory overload the strap without any impact deceleration
personally I use two in the front, both doubled back on themselves. One forward and one back, I assume the winch/post will do nothing when/if needed
but I have always subscribed to the theory if one is good two must be better