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Al G
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Beach wheels
are balloon tires that you change on your trailer before launch?
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Beach wheels are for launching over deep sand on the beach. I went down and got some used atv tires and rims {cheap}. Heres a pic of my beach launch
trailer.
[Edited on 9-8-2005 by Frank]
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Cool set-up Frank !
Al,
You can get a set of beach wheels attached to a light-weight axil with a rope on each end. They can go under the boat alone. I got mine from a Hobbie
Cat dealer. You need a buddy to use them though.
I kinda like Frank's solution if you do a lot of beach loading with a quad.
I've used them a lot with a boat we leave at the beach. The tide change is such that we need to bring the boat as much as 200' up the beach to store
it.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Frank
Beach wheels are for launching over deep sand on the beach. I went down and got some used atv tires and rims {cheap}. Heres a pic of my beach launch
trailer.
[Edited on 9-8-2005 by Frank] |
Frank, how do those wheels stay in place when launching, i.e., how are they attached to the boat? Or are they attached to a small sled/trailer? Where
did you get the trailer?
[Edited on 9-9-2005 by Hook]
[Edited on 9-9-2005 by Hook]
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The wheels are attached to a aluminum home made trailer that breaks down and fits into the back of my truck. This year I added a wheel up front, it
made it easier to pull around by hand. A Quad sure does make life easier though.
Anybody have a easier way of getting the boat up farther on the beach when the waves come up. Do I just need to get up some ramming speed? That 4
stroke on the back sure is heavy.
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Frank,
I saw this only done once at Cabo Pulmo by a man and his wife but it sparked my interest. Maybe others have seen this technique also.
They would motor up to the beach nose first and tilt up the motor. They would pull it up the incline a bit with each large wave until it was a fair
ways up. Then they pushed their boat sideways so that it was parallel to the beach. With each of the longest wave they would push the seaward gunnel
downward and the boat still further up the beach, sideways. They worked as a team, she pushed from the bow and he near the stern. In the end it was
practically on dry land and there was no danger of water spilling over the gunnel.
Then he got the rope, attached it to the bow and towed it over the berm with his 4WD.
Never tried it myself. But saw it done.
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Man that sure is a lot better then how I did it @ Verdugos in July when the wind came up. I tried to get speed up to surf it on in like a pro for
the peanut gallery at the bar. I pulled the plug too early and came up short. Theres something about buying a new 4 stroke and heading it into the
beach that gives you a pucker factor of 8. Anyways 2 waves over the stern, you can guess the rest.....Long walk past the bar....
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That funny, Frank. On the other hand it's probably happened to all of us at some point in time. When those boats fill with water you're at their
mercy. They get so heavy you can't budge the damn things. Meanwhile you're waiting for the next wave to come in.
You know those launch wheel we talked about on www.baja.net? Well, they're quite large and they raise the hull about a foot off the bottom. So when you touch land you're a foot higher and those
small waves that slap against the transom usually pass right under or sometimes just tick the transom as they go by. You mount the wheels while you're
past the surf and as you come in you hop out and start rolling before you've reached dry ground.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
That funny, Frank. On the other hand it's probably happened to all of us at some point in time. When those boats fill with water you're at their
mercy. They get so heavy you can't budge the damn things. Meanwhile you're waiting for the next wave to come in.
You know those launch wheel we talked about on www.baja.net? Well, they're quite large and they raise the hull about a foot off the bottom. So when you touch land you're a foot higher and those
small waves that slap against the transom usually pass right under or sometimes just tick the transom as they go by. You mount the wheels while you're
past the surf and as you come in you hop out and start rolling before you've reached dry ground.
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Are these the big balloon tires that are on the back of some boats?
Could you just lower them and run your boat up on the beach?
The fisherman at Punta Lobos out of Todo Santos, beach at full throttle. I think that was what Frank was talking about?
I know I would crash and burn a couple time before learning to do that.
Albert
[Edited on 9-10-2005 by Al G]
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You mean like this? I've haven't seen it done with a tin boat. No, you don't do this sort of thing with wheels. My bad. Didn't read it properly.
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