CaptnChaos wrote:
With this system you could drive your boat up the hill ... even completely loaded. {snip} The motorized system in the front of the boat and a set of TI beach wheels in the back.
Jim, it is great that you are always thinking big. Could we control the direction of the motor with the steering lines? Can you imagine the looks in the sunbathers faces... seeing my
pimped TI-mobile, cruising up and down the beach? Lend me your haka benches, and we can carry a handful of riders too.
NOHUHU, the boat sits on an Appel Beach Cart with 42cm Wheeleez Polyurethane Beach Wheels. Even on a beach cart, it is too difficult to single-handedly pull everything up a 45 degree slope. Below is a photo of the cliff. It is a from the north side of the South Lake Worth Inlet. It is one of several unguarded beaches in Palm Beach County where parking is available and there are no restrictions in launching watercraft. The Altantic Ocean causes the sand shelf to erode, leaving these steep 45 cliffs.
Jerinaldi, this is exactly what we had to do, make half a dozen trips up and down the hill, with the help of several "spectators". Without the help of these spectators, my TI would still be sitting at the bottom of this cliff. The next time we go sailing here, these spectators may grow smarter and evacuate the beach when they see us returning from a sail.
56kz2slow, with the TI being so easy to transport, we like to launch the boat at different locations along the ocean. This cliff scenario can be found at many Atlantic Ocean beaches. Not all locations will always have a tree or safety guard rail at the top of the cliff. In these instances, I was hoping my Guardian anchor could act as the anchor at the top of the cliff.