Why don’t they just bring the boat up onto the trailer while in the water? Is it because normally the waves are bigger an it would be dangerous and difficult? I would have thought the way they are doing it would not be good for the hill of the boat dragging along the sand.
Well… that’s a lot more time consuming that what I’m used to doing here, but they seem to have that system down to a science… I see people talking about “that’s one tough eye hook on the bow”, a couple years ago a 16 foot boat sank next to my neighbors dock. We dove down, tied a rope to the eye on the front of that boat and hooked it up to the neighbors 21 footer, he took off up river and snatched that boat up off the bottom 20 feet down. The normal eye hooks in the front are stronger than you think
Yeah, I guess when you have that kind of money you can do it that way! Steel or Aluminum bottom on boat, tractor, electric wenches, not to mention 100K boat or more. Good on you. We po folks can't do it that way..
Amazing system they got there, these guys must REALLY want to fish! I was impressed by how good the traction of the tractor was. No obvious wheel spin at all in the sand. And we complain about lousy ramps that don't have a dock right next to them!
Beat up your boat and equipment like that......because your too lazy to drive 15 miles to a launch? I would stay on dry before I abuse my hard earned toys like that.
Dick Little we have areas where the land is relatively cheap near good fishing locations but usually they have only very slight beaches & there can be 500 meters from the high tide mark to the low tide mark, so not very attractive for businesses there isn’t much in the way of services (ie gravel roads ect) & they can be 50 kms away from the nearest proper town, many keen recreational fishermen have built holiday houses in these areas because of its affordability & they do what they need to to launch their boats.
Tractor should have been backing trailer under the boat.And the winch just turning over slowly to take the weight up of the wire.Not a good idea dragging the hull of a boat.
dont understand it....why take the added risk of getting parallel with the waves and knifed into the sand when you can run a flat bottom - sacrifice some speed for a lot of safety. V-bottom boats will naturally knife in where the deadrise is most in the bow, then the boat will spin parallel with the waves. or knife in at speed and flip. seems unnecessary
@Goodbye Mr. Anderson jon boat what? there is a 200 year old history of launching and landing dories though surf. the hull design is proven and super easy to handle landing and trailering with a tilt trailer and flat rollers. These days flat bottomed semi-dories of the 20-25ft class are landed on the beach in a few spots on the west coast of the US. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jpi9AYDpwTQ.html
Watch the stress cracks appear around the hitch eye on the boat after doing that a few dozen times. They may claim it's re-enforced, but I bet the superstructure of the boat behind it isnt lol.
