How do you get it off ?.......

[Nautical]

Yes very swish but how do you actually get it off the yacht and onto somewhere you can drive it away?. can't do it from a pontoon, most stern too med berths don't have a wide enough pier to drive it onto Terra firma unless you are on a few that do have vehicle access but how do you know that when you are cruising from port to port.

 

[Moonshiners]

Just give it a few months at sea, it will soon disintegrate, meaning you can carry it off as piles of rust in a couple of tesco's plastic bags...

My tool box was better built than those chassis...

 

[[2068]]

At a guess, you'd use the beefed-up crane hiding behind it.
Normally used for launching the RIB that would sit up there.

dv.

 

[mjf]

There was a boat in my marina (Dutch steel job) which had a Smart on the hydraulic bathing platform - the owner had modified the platform so car could launched at any height upto maindeck level. The idea was to drive off sort of sideways onto land when he cruised the French canals etc.

Looked awful frankly

 

[goochie]

When we were in Holland we saw a lot of the big Dutch/German barges with cars on the roof/rear platform. These seem to be owned by families who live and work for the whole year on their barges. Sort of a cross between owner/driver road hauliers and gypsies. Some of the cars were quite nice - 3 series BMW's and the like.

 

[Kilter]

It's pretty small so just get a slightly beefed up passerelle! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[peterandjeanette]

Wasn't there a post recently about a list to starboard. Perhaps the car is there just to maintain an even keel. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Hurricane]

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You dont - it's for races round the deck.

 

[Nautical]

or maybe they swing it from one Marlow to the other until you reach the quayside !

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

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Yes very swish but how do you actually get it off the yacht and onto somewhere you can drive it away?.

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Park the boat next to a tall dock and drive it off via ramps? Or get a mobile crane in to lift it off. Most Med berths for a boat this size would be accessible by vehicle and the cost of a mobile crane lift (say £500) is not going to worry the owner of this boat
Lovely boat. Which Marlow is she? She'd look better with a baby Aston parked on the top deck though

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Just thought of another idea. Drive the boat under the hoist that virtually every marina has and the hoist will whip that little toy off the boat in no time

 

[Nautical]

Ah ha, good thinking there, top marks mind you tis all a bit of a pain when you can rent one of those toy cars for about 30 euro a day delivered to your boat, seems a bit pointless really (to me anyway). I 'd rather have a biggish rib with bigum motor on the back and just call a cab when I need a car.

I think it was the 70E that had the Smart car on it at Miami.

 

[MapisM]

This is the way

Clicky

 

[rich]

I remember a boat in st Helier,in the late 60s, where the marina is now, with a Lotus Elan on the for'ard deck.

 

[Noboatboater]

surely if you can afford to own (and run) that boat you could hire a car wherever you are going, and have it delivered (with or without driver) to the marina.


Edit:- Sorry nautical. I should of continued reading the thread before posting.

 

[oldgit]

One expects that your specially modified(by Williams or some such) R44 with extra zoom(which lives at the other end of the boat) has a couple of hard points to connect a lifting harness.

 

[rafiki_]

If it were me, I would drive the Smart into the water, and walk or cycle. Much quicker andd less embarrassing!!!