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Karmanopoly@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

how do you get a boat there?

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how do you get a boat there?

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Karmanopoly@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 month ago
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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s fine until you pass under a low bridge.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I guess you just RAM it. 😋

  • Elting@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    My guess would be that frame built for it extends out to the ground and you winch the boat up onto it.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      Yea, with rollers/slides like a conventional trailer a winch would have little issue today.

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    1 month ago

    Mini jet boats are neat

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      1 month ago

      What’s crazy is they’ve been around forever.

      I remember seeing them on rivers in the 80’s - they’d do circles around our speed boat as we cruised at 30/40 knots.

      They used them in a 60’s Bond movie.

      I’d always though they originated with Jet skis.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    Easy. They just drive the truck into the water frontwards (note the angle of the boat) and float the boat on. Just like with a trailer. Obviously, they’ve done a hundred thousand dollars worth of modifications to the truck to make it completely water tight, and added ballast in the bed to ensure it can’t float. All completely reasonable.

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    This isn’t it, but it is the general theme

    https://loadit.com/boat-motor-trailer-loader/

    They’re much less hassle to drive around than trailers as long as you avoid parking garages.

  • SuiXi3D@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    Very carefully.

  • ominous ocelot@leminal.space
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    1 month ago

    Someone needs a bigger pickup truck.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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      I’ve seen different versions of these that extend over the cab where people will park two side-by-sides on top of their truck. It looks ridiculous and has to give the truck some wonky center-of-gravity.

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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        And what little aerodynamics it had are gone.

        But then it’s not like trucks have any in the first place.

        I can see the advantage though - trailering has its own problems especially where you’re taking a quad.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      That rear suspension hasnt even moved.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    When the truck is in heat this just happens naturally sometimes.

  • Dultas@lemmy.world
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    And I thought people were bad about backing off the end of ramps with regular trailers.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      This would be way easier - just back straight.

      Most people struggle with trailers going forward, backing is a real challenge.

      This you back up till you’re at the end of the ramp, extend the rails, and let the winch ease it out. Not rally that different from loading a boat on a trailer - they get heavier as the come out of the water so you need rollers or sliders.

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    I respect the dedication to the water, send it!

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    1 month ago

    Very carefully.

    I’ll see myself out.

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    You lift it.

    • Karmanopoly@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      Probably very slickery due to lake algae and such

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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        That should all be good just so long as you remember to lift with your knees and not your back.

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