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Taking Your Car Cruising
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 |
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Taking Your Car Cruising
Florida Coasters, if they are still in business, make such a trawler.
Sterling www.CaptainSterling.com |
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Taking Your Car Cruising
Florida Coasters, if they are still in business, make such a trawler.
Sterling www.CaptainSterling.com |
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Taking Your Car Cruising
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? I saw a big powerboat in Cabo San Lucas once that had two boats in a well deck (I think that is what you would call it) in the stern of the boat. There was a crane to left them out. The small one was a 20 foot sportfisher. You could do this and have one as your car and the other as a landing craft to put in in a the boat ramp. Or just leave the car in the landing craft. Or you could put it out on deck where the helicopter goes. Dick |
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Taking Your Car Cruising
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? I saw a big powerboat in Cabo San Lucas once that had two boats in a well deck (I think that is what you would call it) in the stern of the boat. There was a crane to left them out. The small one was a 20 foot sportfisher. You could do this and have one as your car and the other as a landing craft to put in in a the boat ramp. Or just leave the car in the landing craft. Or you could put it out on deck where the helicopter goes. Dick |
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Taking Your Car Cruising
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 |
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Taking Your Car Cruising
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 |
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Taking Your Car Cruising
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 -- --------------------------------------- Buy my boat! http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2443053990 |
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Taking Your Car Cruising
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 -- --------------------------------------- Buy my boat! http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2443053990 |
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Taking Your Car Cruising
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? The nautical equivalent is the dink. I think it'd be more economical in the long run to rent a car when the mood struck. Most of the time, the things we want to see are within walking distance or a taxi ride of where we can land the dink. The car would definitely use space we could use more effectively. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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