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Small motor boat. If I keep it on a trailer at home. How and where do you launch it onto the sea? Kayak?
I am considering buying a motor boat from Ebay, just for myself.
If I keep it at home I can drive it down to the solent. But where can I launch it?
Also is it possible to launch it on your own, or do you need two or more people to do that?
Alternatively I could perhaps keep it on the water all the time. But would it have to be taken out for maintenance every year? What a palava.
Could I lease a share in a boat instead? Could my friend use it as well, at different times?
I am looking to go around the solent.
Thanks
FYI I have a kayak at the moment, but it is too small to cross the shipping lanes to the IOW. Can I get something a little bigger with an engine that I can still carry in or on my car or trailer, and which I can self-launch from the beach without needing a ramp?
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ANY LAUNCH SITE LIKE SOUTHAMPTON ROAD NEXT TO SOLENT PARK (PUBLIC) OR SOLENT PARK (PRIVATE). DEPENDS ON SIZE OF BOAT, PUBLIC MAY BE FREE PRIVATE MAT HAVE YEARLY MEMBERSHIP AND OR LAUNCH FEE.
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SAFETY SAYS DON’T GO OUT BY YOURSELF SO YOU WILL HAVE SOME ONE TO HELP YOU, IF YOU LAUNCH SOMEONE MUST HOLD THE BOAT WHILST THE CAR AND TRAILER ARE DRIVEN OUT OF THE WAY AND PARKED. YOU WILL SOON SORT OUT BEST NUMBER TO LAUNCH AND RETREIVE.
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IF ITS BIG ENOUGH TO KEEP IN TE WATER THEN THIS WILL COST A CERTAIN AMOUNT PER FOOT PER YEAR AND UNLESS IN A MARINA REQUIRE A TENDER OR SMALL BOAT TO GET OUT TO IT.
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IF KEPT IN WATER FLOATING THEN IT WOULD REQUIRE TAKING OUT ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR AND THE BOTTOM SCRAPED CLEAN OF BARNICLES ETC THEN RE-ANTI FOULED (PAINTED)
OR WHEN THIS WORK IS REQUIRED IT CAN BE BEACHED AND THE WORK DONE BETWEEN TIDES.
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YOU CAN LEASE A SHARE BUT OBVIOUSLY THIS WOULD BE A BIGGER BOAT SO YOU WOULD NEED TO SORT OUT HOW MUCH TIME YOU HAVE LEASED AND ANY RESTRICTIONS (CAN YOU DRIVE THE BOAT) WHO DECIDES WHO HAS BOAT AND WHEN, ANY LEASE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERABLE
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YOU SHOULDN’T GO BY YOURSELF SO HOW ABOUT A DOUBLE SEA KAYAK WITH SMALL OUT BOARD MOTOR OR SAILS
I USED TO LIVE IN PORTSMOUTH AND USED TO HAVE AN OLD CANVAS CANOE THAT CAME WITH MAST AND SET OF SAILS
THERE WAS A STEP FOR BOTTOM OF MAST IN THE BOTTOM OF CANOE
THE MAST WHEN UPRIGHT WAS CLAMPED IN POINT OF COCKPIT AND WIRE FROM TOP OF MAST RAN TO FRONT AND BACK HANDLES
THERE WAS ALSO A CROSS PIECE THAT CLAMPED TO THE COCKPIT JUST BEHIND THE FRONT CREW MEMBER AND WAS WIDER THAN THE CANOE WITH A DAGGER BOARD ON EACH END THAT WENT INTO THE WATER TO STOP WATER GOING SIDEWAYS
DONT FORGET SOME SORT OF GPS SYSTEM TO GET BACK TO YOUR TRAILER/CAR
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