For a long time now i have been curious as to why the winch cable on my boat trailers is soooo long I have pulled the boat from the water at many differant ramps and many times at low tide and have never used more than 4' or 5' of cable but so often the cable is pinched and have to use channel locks to free it to load the boat<br />I am curious if there is really a good reason for its length?