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

I have a freind that drives a Jeep onto his foredeck. His cruising
boat is a refitted tug that he and his wife run from the Great Lakes
down to FL. 7' draft limits things a bit but it is a pretty comfortable
and capable boat.

Doug
s/v Callista

"Bill Bradley" wrote in message
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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

Look into Jay Benfords "Little Ships"..

More of a coffee table book for the dreaming couch potatoe.

Steve
s/v Good Intentions

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

Bill,

Look up designs by Jay Benford and you will see a couple of crusiers
that show a car on the foredeck in the cargo area. The olny problem I see is
how are going to off load it when most docks in the south are narrow floating
type. Up in New England where they have the fixed piers you can go alongside.

Leanne Bradley - No relation, I think
S/V Fundy

While I was 'day dreaming' and looking at Jay's "Little Ships" I noted that
he had a big hydraulic crane on the foredeck.

I guess that with the shallow bow draft, a skipper could bring the bow into
a launch ramp and set the car/jeep off in the very shallow water.

Myself, I have been carring a moutain bike around, lashed to the rigging..
However I am concerned when I have to haul it around in the inflatable.
Afraid that something pertruding might punture the dingy.

Steve
s/v Good Intentions

While I was 'day dreaming' and looking at Jay's "Little Ships" I noted that
he had a big hydraulic crane on the foredeck.

I guess that with the shallow bow draft, a skipper could bring the bow into
a launch ramp and set the car/jeep off in the very shallow water.

Myself, I have been carring a moutain bike around, lashed to the rigging..
However I am concerned when I have to haul it around in the inflatable.
Afraid that something pertruding might punture the dingy.

Steve
s/v Good Intentions

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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