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pacificobob
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Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  | There is a popular launch ramp in Alaska at the mouth of Deep Creek, that is only usable for a few hours at high tide. To solve the problem of
everyone wanting to be fishing at high tide instead of cursing in a traffic jam, entrepreneurs started using tractors to launch customer boats from
the beach.
Using the aerial view on Bing Maps, it looks like a local with a tractor could be doing the same thing at the mouth of the arroyo south of town. I
have not been to that site, but it looks like it would be doable with no environmental concerns on the beach. |
i have launched at deep creek more times than I can count. works a trick.
always wondered how the tractor owner was able to combat the corrosion.
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SFandH
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Anybody remember the old forestry monster truck that launched and recovered boats in San Felipe? Massive rust but it worked.
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JZ
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| Quote: Originally posted by SFandH | | Anybody remember the old forestry monster truck that launched and recovered boats in San Felipe? Massive rust but it worked. |
I've used the launch ramp at the marina in San Felipe several times.
That thing is pretty crazy.
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SFandH
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I'm talking about before the marina. The only way was beach launch. The last time I saw the beast truck was maybe 35 years ago. Unique truck. Radical
tides.
Flat bottomed freighters used to go to San Felipe, wait for the tide to go out, unload the ship while it was high and dry, then wait for the tide to
come in and move on.
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by SFandH | I'm talking about before the marina. The only way was beach launch. The last time I saw the beast truck was maybe 35 years ago. Unique truck. Radical
tides.
Flat bottomed freighters used to go to San Felipe, wait for the tide to go out, unload the ship while it was high and dry, then wait for the tide to
come in and move on. |
Maybe not the same one, but this was in the late 1960s... from the 1970 Cliff Cross Baja Guide, at San Felipe:
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sancho
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Maybe 20+ yrs. back, at Kiki's RV Park San Felipe, was a beast of
old truck, orange as I remember, that would winch boats on trailers up thru Kiki's ramp, while
attached to a 2" or so wire braided cable buried in the middle of the RV area, allways of interest
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Alan
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| Quote: Originally posted by SFandH | I'm talking about before the marina. The only way was beach launch. The last time I saw the beast truck was maybe 35 years ago. Unique truck. Radical
tides.
Flat bottomed freighters used to go to San Felipe, wait for the tide to go out, unload the ship while it was high and dry, then wait for the tide to
come in and move on. |
I remember a beast truck from the mid 70's with a big A frame on the back. I believe it
was at Rueben's
In Memory of E-57
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| Quote: Originally posted by Marla Daily | | In Loreto, the guard at the launch ramp stops anyone —non Mx. captain—trying to launch. There is NO exception if it isn't a MX captn. No
misunderstanding. Guard said to go to the port captain. Port captain says "it's the new law." No more information. And although it began during covid,
it isn't related to covid precautions. Gringos are not allowed to launch their boat. Period. And as to "captain", my husband is a Master
Mariner—highest license in the world! Go figure. |
Oh ... oh ...! Where does your world ends? At the "Trump Wall" ? "The world is not enough" J.B. said. And there are other licenses you might not
know. 
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Were you drunk when you wrote that?
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