by johnwest » Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:15 pm
Some good advice above, my own experience includes towing Seahog +55 hp(2stroke) with a Renault 1400, Raider 18 + 75 4-stroke with a Suzuki Grand Vitara, the crawler box made boat retrieval a doddle, currently a Predator 165 + 60 hp 4-stroke towed by a Hyundai ix 35 4x4. Diesel, 4x4, crawler box(low ratio gear box) would be best but you can get away with less. My problem would have been getting started up the slip where the surface is wet, covered In algae, esp. that green stuff, and the surface is age-polished cobble stones. Most modern cars are front wheel drive which doesn't help when the weight is on the rear. My cure for this was to carry a small container of coarse sand or shellgrit, a handful scattered in front of the driving wheels provided enough grip to get moving. There is a bit of advice about keeping the car engine running while on the slip, in case it won't start again! I was following this once and had floated the boat off, hopped aboard and was moving the boat to the pier to tie up when I noticed my trailer and jeep sliding (wheels locked) backwards into the water. I think the vibration of the running engine caused it to slip on the algae coated surface. Fortunately the jeep bottomed out before going too far into the water though, due to having left the rear passenger door open, I shipped quite a few gallons of water.
2013 species; 31
2014 species; 27
2015 species; 28
2016 species; 32
2017 species;28
2018 species; 33
2019 species; ballan wrasse,blonde ray, coalfish, cod, cuckoo wrasse, dab, dogfish, flounder, goldsinny wrasse, ling, mackerel, plaice, pollack, poorcod, pouting, scad, sea scorpion, spotty ray, spurdog, thornback, tub gurnard, turbot, whiting.