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20-08-2008, 11:13 AM
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How not to launch your boat...
Last weekend @ mindarie. Apparently someone is trying to blame the condition of the ramp - haha. Tool.
The only boat I launch regularly is a big 5+tonne bastard on a 1+tonne trailer behind a truck. To avoid scenes like this, I generally put the truck in 1st and handbrake on - rather than leaving it in neutral and running but relying solely on the handbrake.
What do other boaties do?
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20-08-2008, 11:14 AM
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One thumps the other screams
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Oh my... that kinda looks a bit falcoonesque with a WA plate no less.
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20-08-2008, 11:22 AM
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Hi Guys,
I Thought you might be interested & amused by this...
I went to put my boat in the water Saturday morning at Mindarie boat
ramp & as I pulled up to start the launch I noticed this guy struggling
with his car.
It took me a few seconds to realize he was trying to stop it sliding
into the sea, Due to the shocking state of the boat ramp, bad design &
slippy as all buggery, when he pushed the boat off the trailer the car
just slipped down the ramp & started to float away.
I went running over to give him a hand to stop his car disappearing into
the depths of the marina, unfortunately with the trailer still attached
& with just 2 of us we couldn't get it back.
A few more people came over & gave us a hand but by then the car was
almost completely full of water & there was no way we were going to pull
it out.
So we abandoned it, tied it off to the jetty & called the tow truck.
Not a good days boating trip for the poor guy who was then faced with
having to get his boat out of the water and home without his car.
Gaz
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20-08-2008, 11:24 AM
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Cheers, Cip.
Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V was too hard after having to do all the lolbuilder stuff 
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20-08-2008, 11:54 AM
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Whoops!!
When we launch my our boat I usually drive the boat while someone backs the trailer down and bumps me off. Then I pull in and pick the car driver up after he is parked, we start with everyone on the boat apart from the driver.
For retrieving drop the car driver off, he backs the trailer down then i drive the boat up to the trailer, clip onto winch and winch in. When he parks the car in first and handbrake on, motor off. If ramp allows driving on then drive on.
Cheers
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20-08-2008, 12:11 PM
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Have a boat too big to launch from a boat ramp, thus requiring its own pen. Problem solved.
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20-08-2008, 12:14 PM
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One thumps the other screams
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Have a boat too big to launch from a boat ramp, thus requiring its own pen, shares in BP and an annual income equivalent to the GDP of a small country. Problem solved.
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Fixed.
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Personally I'd go Yamaha.
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20-08-2008, 01:10 PM
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I once launched a boat from a troopie with no handbrake. That sure was fun...
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20-08-2008, 01:16 PM
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Ours is in a rack now, got sick of trying to tow it to the ramp and having spanners at the ramp who can't launch a boat or back a trailer.
The new one will be too big to tow on the road...good old US$... 
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Have a boat too big to launch from a boat ramp, thus requiring its own pen. Problem solved.
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20-08-2008, 01:28 PM
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Left field:.....
Would insurance cover a clusterfuck like that? I'm thinking yes...pay the excess, but your premium just got launched into into outer space.
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20-08-2008, 01:28 PM
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join the navy?
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20-08-2008, 01:28 PM
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Left field:.....
Would insurance cover a clusterfuck like that? I'm thinking yes...pay the excess, but your premium just got launched into into outer space.
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yes, and that is a stat total loss!
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20-08-2008, 01:31 PM
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heard something about this on the radio this arvo, someone was carrying on about having a go at the local MP to get the ramp fixed. not so sure it's the ramp that needs fixing....
Last edited by chief wiggum; 20-08-2008 at 01:53 PM.
Reason: dumbarse forgot who they were having a go at
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20-08-2008, 01:37 PM
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heh heh
Ya sure it's the ramp. Coz this happens there ALL THE TIME, doesn't it?
The tool either forgot the brake or the brake failed to keep up with the load.
And back it went.
The ramp isn't the problem, kids.
Insurance should cover it, launching of boats is not one of the "uninsured uses" I've ever seen on a policy.
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20-08-2008, 01:49 PM
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anyone else see the irony in "captain starfish" putting up this thread?
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20-08-2008, 02:53 PM
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no.
The only way i can seeing the ramp being the cause is if the car slid with locked wheels down the ramp. Unlikely
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20-08-2008, 03:20 PM
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Well I've got to say I've seen this nearly happen about 5 or so times before at various ramps... usually at very low tide with a lot of marine growth on the ramp...
With the old boat it was a case of reverse down ramp (using mitsi pajero)
Stop when water is JUST lapping at the bottom of the car tyres...
Leave car in 1st gear with handbrake up, turn engine off...
I dont understand how people can trust their handbrake...
Nowadays we have a Bertam 35 though so its just a case of backing it out of the pen... and paying the diesel bills...
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20-08-2008, 03:29 PM
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Stop when water is JUST lapping at the bottom of the car tyres...
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There's the magic right there.
As soon as your wheels start going into (and flicking around when you leave) salt water, you can kiss your steel handbrake cable goodbye.
It won't happen overnight, but submerged rear wheels usually mean that one day, when you're least expecting it, when the handbrake is on and under a fair load (sound familiar?) that corroded cable will snap and oshitnobrakeoshitnocar.
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20-08-2008, 05:23 PM
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I use a Travel lift....
You have to when your boat weights 12 ton...
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20-08-2008, 05:56 PM
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Haha has someone got the pictures of that doctor that submerged his cruiser a few years ago? Used to be the Commodore or something at one of the yacht clubs and putting his boat in ended up drowning a near new Landcruiser at the same time.
Its still funny seeing cars underwater, whether its the Lleyland brothers trying to cross a flooded river or someone with too much money an not enough sense lol.
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