jaguar 22 road delivery?

[OceanSprint]

I rented a transit-type van with tow bar locally to tow 24 foot boat from Birmingham to Scotland. As it is a van you can strip the boat of all gear and put it in the van! I think it was a Renault, and as i recall could tow 3.5 tonne.

 

[Seajet]

That would be kinder on the boat's structure too, but one has to allow for some things like additional furniture, tanks - even empty -, water absorbtion, and indeed whether the figures quoted by the manufacturer were accurate to start with !

I'd thought the Jaguar should be a bit lighter than an Anderson as the Jaguar has less internal structure, layup and I think less ballast than the A22's 950lbs, so am intrigued by Lakesailor's table giving them both the suspiciously round figure of 2,500 lbs - 1136 KG.

I'd think it worthwhile finding if there is a weighbridge near to home and giving it a try, before getting escorted there by plod.

 

[oldharry]

I think the problem with flatbed trailers is that you can get a 'proper' boat trailer therefore it 'must' be safer to use that. QED a flatbed is not 'safe'. Flatbed trucks are different - you don't get trucks specially designed to carry boats iusually. Perverse. But Plod has picked up the gory pieces from an accident too often to give you the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Seajet]

I'm sure that's a large part of it, in the unlikely event plod are using any logic at all.

In my experience of accidents and break-ins, the ' gory bits the plod were picking up ' were souvenirs for their own little collections !

My boat broken into - WPC did zero useful but took a bit of my smashed alarm as a souvenir, ' I get one from every crime scene I attend '.

When a car drove me and my motorbike off the road, I couldn't find the anti-mist nosepiece from my crash helmet; turned out the plod had taken it; he had a motorbike himself ( a poor one, XS500 ) and must have known the nosepiece was useful to me, but took it and only grudgingly returned it.

Old Harry I think you give them too much credit, they just see ' thing on trailer / back of lorry, not a gypsy who we daren't go near, must be worth an ' offence detected ', better call all surrounding expensive interceptors for backup '.

At Cadnam, the gateway to the New Forest the plod have a regular trailer / caravan trap and I've seen several expensive police cars attend the obviously dangerous occasions some target is pounced upon then escorted to the weighbridge, hopefully ruining some family holiday and proving how important they the plod are.

No point mentioning to them that flat bed lorries have to be maintained and usually stay on tarmac, while boat trailers get dunked in salt water then left static for 6 months...

 

[JumbleDuck]

At Cadnam, the gateway to the New Forest the plod have a regular trailer / caravan trap and I've seen several expensive police cars attend the obviously dangerous occasions some target is pounced upon then escorted to the weighbridge, hopefully ruining some family holiday and proving how important they the plod are.

Caravan owners are notoriously bad for doing things illegally ... something like 50% of all caravans stopped in random checks have bald tyres, faulty brakes or, most of all, dangerous loading. Next time you're out and about, look at cars towing caravans ... loads of them are squatting at the back and raised at the front (who needs steering?) as the caravan has been piled full of stuff, way over a safe nose weight.

Mind you, random stops also generally show that 40% of HGVs are overloaded and that 40% of HGV drivers are breaking tachograph or driving hours rules.

 

[Seajet]

Not sure about that, certainly true in the past but I get the impression caravan bods are a bit more clued up now ?

Just as mobo's used to be 90 % rude inconsiderate gits, but nowadays that's rare and they have become quite civilised.

I say this despite my ex father in law reckoning himself slightly above Jesus, if he'd had a caravan - though why it's regarded as somehow superior to tow a box rather than have a converted van complete with its own motor remains a mystery to me.