42 foot cuddy cabin? Good luck towing that... And my boat sits high on the trailer, so its gotta be in the water far too... almost to where my wheels are touching the water, but again it varys with the water levels. At the river where I normally launch, the ramp drops off, so it makes it easy when the water is up.

 

Yea I'm going to look at MODOT and ARDOT heigth restrictions and see what permits I'll need to get it home, and trade someone with a bigger truck for a day to get it home, then when it's ready, I'd put it in at Ozark and rent a dock to keep it at. I dont know if I want that expense or not.... I may just get it here, clean it up, and sell it this spring. Make it a later winter/early spring project.

 

Ever had the trailer tires drop off the end of a concrete ramp?

I haven't with my little boat, but my buddy has, with a 23' cubby cabin, tandem axle trailer. His truck couldn't budge that trailer... We had to get into the water with 2 hi-jacks and 2x4's to get the wheels clear of the edge of the ramp.

Didn't help that it was outgoing tide, and going out about 8 kts...

 

PSS, let me know if/when you get this thing, I'm gonna have to see it. And 98, I meant that the ramp got steeper, not ended. That would have sucked.

 

I have... lake level was low.... trailer was empty so truck pulled it out, but it broke the center cross beam right above the axle. Litterally ripped the trailer in 2.

 

And yet...that light is still dangling from the back...

 

ehh. who cares about that, as long as it gets me to the water and back.

 

It took almost 45 minutes to get than dayum boat on that trailer in that current... No way was it coming back off...

 

HAHA

Last year I raced a bad storm back to the ramp. Everyone was battoning down thier hatches because it looked like a potential toronado, and I was just trying to get out of the freaking water..... Just as we got to the ramp the rain started, so that was a good sign, except it was almost horizontal rain... not so good.... It was probably 35 mph + winds with frequent 45 mph+ gust. At one point after numerous failed attempts I was almost on the trailer and got hit by a gust of side wind and ended up sitting sideways on the fenders..... The storm was getting worse I was tempted to pull it out like that and wait for the storm to pass, but did not know, highly doubted that the fenders would have supported it. By the time I finally got it on, the storm was almost over.

 

I though about doing these on mine until I seen them on a truck. I don't think they look right. I would like to find some kind of a miniature light that is hardly noticeable and has high output.

I only have to back down to right where the tires touch the water to launch mine. But one time I went to a different ramp. I only used it to see if my bellows was going to leak after I replaced it. I was at the marina fixing my boat and they were letting me use there tools, when I finished they said I could use there ramp to see it everything was good. This was on my 21' Regal I use to have. I had to back the truck in the water until I submerged the front wheels They don't use it for a public ramp, they dry slip all there boats and forklift them in and out. When I bought my current boat a Wellcraft Martinique 2400 I tried to launch it there and couldn't So I just use the state park near me and I bought a liftime launch pass, there ramps are great.

 

Been there, done that...


You know what they say about boats... They're nothing but a hole in the water into which you throw your money.


Whatever, I love boating and fishing too much, and so do the kids... And you can't take the money with you when you die...

 

As Brewdude always says....

BOAT
Belt
Out
Another
Thousand

 

No doubt...

 

I've never been that far in, I'm only 2wd I probably wouldn't come back out, the bed would be floating..... I'd be scared to trim down to back off the trailer....

 

I always say....

Boat
The only four letter word left to call it.

Fiberglass:
That stuff that dont float.....