How deep do you need to go to let go?

[mjkinch1]

I was munching on an Ice cream at Anglesey on Saturday, and around 4pm (quite late for a dull day) a guy races up in his Range Rover, dumps everyone on the boat (complete with lifejackets) and then on the second attempt (He had to move as it was too choppy in the first place) he raced his car in backwards, until as you can see, he was deep enough to let the boat float off.

Now having trailered boats for a year or so, I used to use every trick I could think off to get the boat off without getting too wet - generally as soon as the exhaust got wet was deep enough.

This guy (and apologies if you are a forum member) must have waterproof seals on his doors, or borrowed it from a friend, as I would guess Seawater must seep in somewhere?

Does anyone else go to these sort of depths to launch a boat in the sea without special equipment (or at least a 4wd that is built for it)?

Also as he drove out he managed to do this at a reasonable speed as well.

I could imagine it was of those moments that the kids have been going on all day about taking the boat out, and finally worn thin by the constant harrasment, he got the boat in and out in record time!

Martyn

 

[LittleShip]

Martyn

Once had the fortune to see somebody doing the same thing on Lon Golf Abersoch, only he didnt get the car out and the tide came in. Turned out that the Range Rover was dads new toy and was 2 weeks old. Seems once the wheels are turning the sand even a four wheel drive wont get out! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Shame!

Tom

 

[captainalex]

He's clearly trying to recreate the magic of Top gear and the Toyboata, minus the outboard and curtis approved hull.

 

[bdsweeting]

The idea of the highish speed is to generate a bow wave, as shown, which helps keep the wet stuff out of the engine bay.

 

[rich]

He's gotter be a car salesman, with a boat taken in part ex. I'll bet he gave the outboard a good few revs outof the water as well /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

I hear tell that Landies used like this rot to bits in a few scant years and seawater sucked into hot gearboxes as the seawater cools it down cause havoc with all the gears and bearings. So if you can afford to write the thing off in 3 years, go ahead.

 

[rich]

Salt water 1 to 2 years...

 

[Kawasaki]

Just offered Him £1000 in px.
Should get £8000 off some tourist! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Hey Mart which part of the Island were you?

 

[duncan]

hmmmm - well 9 years on and my Landcruisers isn't showing any signs of issues from similar treatment............

with bunked trailers, deep v hull and shallow angled slips/beaches you don't get a whole lot of choice (although I did rig a pulley to the rear of the trailer and could winch the boat off if necessary...........

tried unhitching and pushing back manually but that didn't work as the trailer quickly bogged.

best I saw was a length of scaffold pole with ball on one end and hitch on other used v skillfully - just never got round to rigging one up.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Hee Hee Duncan.... I tried driving one of those once..... NEVER again..... its a LOT harder than it looks... and it looks pretty hard!