studgies
Well-Known Member
Before I start I know this is probubly a realy stupid idea/question but I am gonna do it anyway.
I have a 29 foot twin outdrive sealine that I keep on a drying pontoon mooring on the Itchen, the ground is quite thickly covered in mud/slime and i am not too worried about the boat drying out I actualy find it quite useful as I can keep an eye on things below and do some tinkering with the legs etc. The issue I have is that I can not get full acces to the underside of the boat and the drive legs while they are burried in a thick layer of smelly mud so when I have major bits to do I have to get the boat lifted. One other lesser issue is that the boat never sits totally level and there the bottom of the hull digs through the mud to the shingle below it erodes the anti foul very quickly.
To my point, I have seen the fancy floating boat stands that keep the boat totaly out of the water, great idea but a little over the top I think, what I was wondering was if it is possible to fix a boat dolly type stand to the bottom, next to the pontoon for the boat to drop onto as the tide goes down. What are your thoughts, am I being totaly mad, would it be impossibly to make the boat drop reliably into place, would I wreck my boat, would it be impossible to make/source such a thing, would it cost the earth (poor NHS employee here) or am I onto a fantastic money and boat saving idea???
PS thanks for all the kind offers I had from people offering to sort out my reverse lock bar a couple of weeks back, a mate at work new a mate wiv a mate that could and he did it for the grant cost of £8, which is better that the £700 VP wanted!!
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I have a 29 foot twin outdrive sealine that I keep on a drying pontoon mooring on the Itchen, the ground is quite thickly covered in mud/slime and i am not too worried about the boat drying out I actualy find it quite useful as I can keep an eye on things below and do some tinkering with the legs etc. The issue I have is that I can not get full acces to the underside of the boat and the drive legs while they are burried in a thick layer of smelly mud so when I have major bits to do I have to get the boat lifted. One other lesser issue is that the boat never sits totally level and there the bottom of the hull digs through the mud to the shingle below it erodes the anti foul very quickly.
To my point, I have seen the fancy floating boat stands that keep the boat totaly out of the water, great idea but a little over the top I think, what I was wondering was if it is possible to fix a boat dolly type stand to the bottom, next to the pontoon for the boat to drop onto as the tide goes down. What are your thoughts, am I being totaly mad, would it be impossibly to make the boat drop reliably into place, would I wreck my boat, would it be impossible to make/source such a thing, would it cost the earth (poor NHS employee here) or am I onto a fantastic money and boat saving idea???
PS thanks for all the kind offers I had from people offering to sort out my reverse lock bar a couple of weeks back, a mate at work new a mate wiv a mate that could and he did it for the grant cost of £8, which is better that the £700 VP wanted!!
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