Bill,

I think the problem is not so much carrying the car (if you have a
large enough boat). The problem is how your car is going to react
to months of salt spray and intense sunshine.

Some friends of ours took their bicycles crusing, and because of
space considerations on their Hunter 38, ended up lashing them to
the deck along with their dinghy. The bicycles were so hopelessly
rusted after a few weeks that they ended up heaving them overboard.
At least that is the way that I remember the story ;-).

YMMV,

Don W.

Bill Bradley wrote:
Has anyone (outside of Navy Landing Craft) designed a cruising style boat
that will carry a car?

RV'er haul their cars, why not cruisers?

Bill

Florida Coasters, if they are still in business, make such a trawler.

Sterling
www.CaptainSterling.com

Florida Keyz wrote:
Florida Coasters, if they are still in business, make such a
trawler.

I seem to recall that these are one of the Jay Benford designs already
mentioned. I have bumped into a few of these small ships. They had a sort
of crane on the foredeck on the starboard side, and the device could lift a
jeep-like vehicle on and off the boat.

I really like the idea of traveling on a ship such as this, (though I never
got the chance). Looking at these behemoths gives one the impression that
"coaster" is about the safe limit, with perhaps "inland coaster" a better
and more conservative description.

Incidentally I believe the descendants (nautically anyway) of one of the
original ICW explorers, Slade Dale of Bay Head NJ, have actively cruised the
ICW in such a boat. The first time I met them they were on Slade's old
boat. Later they showed up with one of the Florida Coasters. For those who
get the reference, these folks were most certainly from Bay Head, with all
the attendant implications.

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Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.tripod.com

I'm sure this is a ridiculous idea for many reasons, but a picture that
popped into my head is a vessel with a ramp at the back where you can
drive your Mini Cooper onboard, where it becomes your power source
underway. Maybe you have to remove a tire - maybe you use some sort of
pulley system like when they test your emissions. Perhaps you could even
set up some sort of "remote control" via the engine electronics. Don't
know what you'd do about shifting - maybe use reverse gear?

--sg

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I'm sure this is a ridiculous idea for many reasons, but a picture that
popped into my head is a vessel with a ramp at the back where you can
drive your Mini Cooper onboard, where it becomes your power source
underway. Maybe you have to remove a tire - maybe you use some sort of
pulley system like when they test your emissions. Perhaps you could even
set up some sort of "remote control" via the engine electronics. Don't
know what you'd do about shifting - maybe use reverse gear?

--sg

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Buy my boat!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2443053990

Florida Keyz wrote:
Florida Coasters, if they are still in business, make such a
trawler.

I seem to recall that these are one of the Jay Benford designs already
mentioned. I have bumped into a few of these small ships. They had a sort
of crane on the foredeck on the starboard side, and the device could lift a
jeep-like vehicle on and off the boat.

I really like the idea of traveling on a ship such as this, (though I never
got the chance). Looking at these behemoths gives one the impression that
"coaster" is about the safe limit, with perhaps "inland coaster" a better
and more conservative description.

Incidentally I believe the descendants (nautically anyway) of one of the
original ICW explorers, Slade Dale of Bay Head NJ, have actively cruised the
ICW in such a boat. The first time I met them they were on Slade's old
boat. Later they showed up with one of the Florida Coasters. For those who
get the reference, these folks were most certainly from Bay Head, with all
the attendant implications.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.tripod.com

Florida Coasters, if they are still in business, make such a trawler.

Sterling
www.CaptainSterling.com