You say that you have a gradual slope, and as one of the other replies
stated, the use of a trolly and rails works fairly well. If you had a
bulkhead on your property the idea of dingy davets is useful. These are the
crane like affairs on docks, bulkhead and boats that allow the launching and
removal of small boats from the water. either manually of electrically.
Where I live in south Texas, we use a sling affair attached on the overhead
section of our covered docks to raise the boat out of the water. This is
basically an electric motor chain driving a 2 inch pipe via gears that wraps
4 cables around it via a pulley system, with heavy nylon webbing or slings,
to raise the boat clear of the water. Sort of the way a 4 post car lift
works.
Another idea is to use a larger garden tractor with a hitch to launch your
boat. You might have to rig an extention for you trailer with say 2 inch
squre tubing ,10 feet long, with a set of heay solid rubber tires mounted at
the ball end to carry the weight of the trailer and boat. And the make a
clevis pin hitch on the tractor end to attach it.
Just a couple of ideas. Hope one of them helps,
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Boicey" <tboicey@brit.ca>
To: <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:38 PM
Subject: Anybody know anything about rigging a boat launch?
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> I just bought a modest (ok: beat up) 15 foot fiberglass boat that I
> have a 20hp motor I'll be putting on. It came with a good trailer.
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