LancairDriver
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Easy Launch Baja Boat
Here's a boat that can make launching from the beach a lot easier.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/s0I-76_pHLQ
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rdrrm8e
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Coolage
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captkw
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get real !!
Nice Outboard !!!
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skippermike
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Anphib
We just had a similar boat(?) delivered to our boat yard as a tender/toy for a large yacht.
Without the trick front and back wheels it looks like a heavy duty, hard bottom inflatable.
It has the bow wheel shown in the photo, and stern wheels on the transom. Each wheel has a motor - electric, I guess.
The wheel assemblies pivot up and down by hydraulics - having said that, I guess the wheel motors could be hydraulic.
Having the up and down, as well as the motive power all be hydraulic would be pretty cool!
It is not my customer, so I've just heard that this boat-thing can run up to a beach and deploy its large off road tires and run up the beach, almost
non-stop.
I'll try to find out more about it.
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watizname
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Reminds me of coming across from the channel Islands in my old 20' open skipjack before the eisenglass c-ckpit. Kinda wet, even in that lake. But I
wouldn't turn it down. 
I yam what I yam and that\'s all what I yam.
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dizzyspots
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www.sealegs.com entry level 20 ft RIB WITHOUT outboard is $89000US
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Gulliver
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Expensive fish they caught.
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Hook
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What is powering the wheels? A battery bank?
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willardguy
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I'd like to have one with just the hydraulic raising and lowering wheels without the drive! 
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bkbend
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A lotta crap hanging around the hull ready to snag line when that big (insert your target fish here) make a run as it sees the boat.
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skippermike
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SeaLegs
Yeah - That looks like the one in our yard.
Has a large outboard - like, maybe, a Yamaha 250. That is an expensive add-on to the already-expensive boat.
I'll find out what powers the lifts for the wheels. They could easily be hydraulic, like trim tab motors.
If the wheel motors are also hydraulic, they'd need a larger hydraulic power source - like what would drive a windless or bow thruster. That would
require some sort of genset or a quite large battery bank - even if the wheel power was only used for a few minutes at a time.
Way more interesting than "What tin boat should I buy for beach launching in Baja?".
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