I have chicken lines on my boat. I do not like the idea of attaching my crew to the boat. If anything happens I want to know they can get away from the boat.

I use hooks, tied to the transom and bungeed into the crossbar, which only attach to the trapeze handle. If the crew needs to leave the boat it is no harder than if there was no hook on the handle.

It has been uses a couple of times when the bow was buried deep. Eileen, my crew, fell against the side of the boat but did not go forward too far. With the lifevest on she was not even close to being hurt. When I asked her if she was okay, she said "JUST GET GOING! I will get back up!" and she did without losing more than about 3 boat lengths on the nearest competitor.

Mine are not adjustable. If they are needed then crew will always have to be far back.

Dan