Larry ,,, no thanks on the battery powered motor scooter.. I'm an all
natural kind a guy. Sails .. wind. Bicycle ... peddle.

I think what I might do is store part of the bicycle on deck and the rest
below. I can bag the front wheel easy enough.
The seat can be taken off with a quick release.

I did see a picture the other day of a boat that had two mountain bicycles
tied to the mast. Problem is rust. In the ocean environment, those
bicycles will rust out in a few days.

As for getting the bicycles on and off; probably use the main sail halyard
with the winch. Off load into the dinghy.

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"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in
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I think a bicyle and a sailboat are about the two best things in the
whole wide world; period.


A rideable bike is pretty bulky to store on a boat. Besides, if you've
been to sea, you've gotten plenty of exercise in muscles you didn't know
you had, so you deserve a little RnR in port. So, I got this one because
it was better'n Cap'n Geoffrey's scooter and its wider tires don't drop
in the gaps his do on the crappy docks.

http://www.largoscooters.com/bladezxtrse.html
I got mine for $299 on sale at Dick's Sporting Goods last year.

It'll run 16mph for 8 miles, lots further if you drive slower at bike
speed. The only noise is the tires on the road and a little from the
chain drive. BladeZ' are very nicely made units.

To store it, you pull the pin holding the seat on and pull the seat post
out of the scooter. (It's fun to ride around standing up without the
seat, too.) Then, you pull back on that release handle under the
steering and the whole front end pivots to horizontal with the front
wheel going up and the steering coming flat against the motor housing
making it as flat as it can get. The steering locks in the down position
so you can use the steering stick as a carrying handle. Now flat, it
fits in a locker or alongside the engine. If you set heavy stuff on top
of it, unlike the bike, it won't crush it. Just be careful of the
exposed control cables.

The batteries are in a little bag with carrying handle under the deck
with a plug so you can swap a dead one for a hot one, but the charger
only works plugged into the XLR microphone jack under the steering.
Battery status is a 3-color LED next to the main power
switch...green=good, yellow=goin' down, red=I'm gonna shut it off in 5
more minutes. The computer won't let you deep cycle and ruin the battery
pack. Throttle power is very smooth as it uses pulse-width-modulation
technology. When you squeeze the disk brake handle, there's a switch
that closes to turn the PM motor into a dynamic brake, recharging the
batteries going downhill.

Great fun to ride, especially when the boat is a mile down a big marina's
dockage from the parking lot! Get a chain lock to secure it to something
as it is easily picked up and stolen.

"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in news:dLATf.2717$yo1.2410
@trndny09:

Off load into the dinghy.


Hope you sail or row that dinghy. Don't let us catch you buzzing around
with an (gasp) outboard!

Nope,, no outboard ,,, small sail and big oars...

But,,, I'm not against outboards. I do love cycling and it is great
exercise.



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"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in news:dLATf.2717$yo1.2410
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Off load into the dinghy.


Hope you sail or row that dinghy. Don't let us catch you buzzing around
with an (gasp) outboard!

Years ago I spotted a guy singlehandling his sailboat, coming out of Steinhache
making his way south down the West coast of Florida. We found out later he
would do a hop, jump on his bike and peddle back to pick up his van. He lashed
his bike to the bow pulpit, but I'm sure he washed off that Gulf salt water when
he made port. Kind of crude, but it worked for him.

Sherwin D.

Thomas Wentworth wrote:

Nope,, no outboard ,,, small sail and big oars...

But,,, I'm not against outboards. I do love cycling and it is great
exercise.

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"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in news:dLATf.2717$yo1.2410
@trndny09:

Off load into the dinghy.


Hope you sail or row that dinghy. Don't let us catch you buzzing around
with an (gasp) outboard!