2A 109 diesel+26 foot sailobat+400 foot climb on 1 lane dirt road =

[StX_Rovers]

No problem. Was wondering how well it would go. Put one of the keels from our terribly neglected Atalanta 26 into the back of the 109 to ballast down the LR as it is currently in what I have been calling Somalia pirate mode (completely stripped down). Hooked up to the trailer after some fixing of the trailer and up the hill we went to our off grid house on the side of Blue Mountain. The shop downstairs is actually designed around the boat, and is larger than the house upstairs (gearhead dream). 1st gear low range and maybe 1/4 throttle. Blew one tire (realized it was ~ 20 years old) on the trailer on a rock but still made it. That 2.25 diesel didn't miss a beat.
Keel loaded, Michelle's 88 in background, boat to starboard, this is outside our old apartment, we had incredibly generous landlords who have turned into very good friends):
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh84/StX_RdRunr/Land%20Rovers/100_2168_zps1218172e.jpg (http://s254.photobucket.com/user/StX_RdRunr/media/Land%20Rovers/100_2168_zps1218172e.jpg.html)

Hooked up, after 10+ years (in which I started a yacht design business, Michelle got tenure, we built an off grid house, other little stuff):
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh84/StX_RdRunr/Land%20Rovers/100_2173_zpsd9673c94.jpg (http://s254.photobucket.com/user/StX_RdRunr/media/Land%20Rovers/100_2173_zpsd9673c94.jpg.html)

Going up one of the steeper sections. Old land lord has a crappy Kia forward control drop side truck with broken 4 wheel drive which tears up this section due to wheel spin as he is working on a house build just above where this photo is taken. That Kia can get stuck on dry level concrete.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh84/StX_RdRunr/Land%20Rovers/100_2181_zps5801d52b.jpg (http://s254.photobucket.com/user/StX_RdRunr/media/Land%20Rovers/100_2181_zps5801d52b.jpg.html)

A little bit farther up, realized I should have rigged up mirrors but really needed to get the boat moved and into the shop.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh84/StX_RdRunr/Land%20Rovers/100_2182_zps87e9b33b.jpg (http://s254.photobucket.com/user/StX_RdRunr/media/Land%20Rovers/100_2182_zps87e9b33b.jpg.html)

What turned out to be the part I was most concerned about. Especially as the road pitches to the right and that was the side I had popped the right front trailer tire. What can not be seen is that the side drops off quickly to the right of the road.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh84/StX_RdRunr/Land%20Rovers/100_2185_zps54cca44c.jpg (http://s254.photobucket.com/user/StX_RdRunr/media/Land%20Rovers/100_2185_zps54cca44c.jpg.html)

Made it past:

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh84/StX_RdRunr/Land%20Rovers/100_2186_zpsd254d7ee.jpg (http://s254.photobucket.com/user/StX_RdRunr/media/Land%20Rovers/100_2186_zpsd254d7ee.jpg.html)

Parked on road just past driveway. Realized that there were sections of the driveway narrower than the triler track width. The problem is that one side of the narrow bit is an 8 foot drop to the pad for the main house that might or might not get built (licking financial wounds). The other side is a Blue Bitch rock wall. Cleared up the loose stuff that had fallen down over the couple of years today and boat will fit. Being the last house is convenient at times like this. While it looks weird, the boat did not actually shift on the trailer.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh84/StX_RdRunr/Land%20Rovers/100_2187_zps81487b06.jpg (http://s254.photobucket.com/user/StX_RdRunr/media/Land%20Rovers/100_2187_zps81487b06.jpg.html)

[SafeAirOne]

Going up one of the steeper sections. Old land lord has a crappy Kia forward control drop side truck with broken 4 wheel drive which tears up this section due to wheel spin as he is working on a house build just above where this photo is taken. That Kia can get stuck on dry level concrete.

You usually can't tell by a picture whether an incline is steep or not, but it looks REALLY steep in the photo that accompanies the above caption though!

[Revtor]

Love to see a rover working!!

[dunerunner]

Well done! :thumb-up:

[S11A]

Awesome.

[redmondrover]

Reminds me of the movie Fitzcarraldo. IMDB it.

[StX_Rovers]

Thanks guys, Thought people would like it. A cool feature is that in the original advertising brochure for the Atalanta 26 it is shown being towed by a Series 1. I think I have a copy of the original brochure but will have to dig it out. The Atalanta is the first really successful trailerable cruising sailboat that is also oceanworthy. Ours was sailed across the Atlantic singlehanded in a race in 1976 by a previous owner. For our honeymoon we took her to Bermuda from Boston and then back up to Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Pei and the Ils de L'Madeleine for the summer of 96 before moving to the VI.

I will check out that movie.

What is bugging me is that I swear I saw a scan of the cover of the brochure on either Craddock's Facebook or Pangolin's but cannot find it on either. Having just moved in the last few months you can imagine what the stuff in boxes situation is in terms of figuring out in which box that brochure is located......

[StX_Rovers]

Found one version of the brochure. It is a Series1 SWB. The one I was thinking of is an artist's rendering in color, but I think they took the photo in this one and the artist changed the background to a remote setting. It would have been done without Photoshop, imagine that.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh84/StX_RdRunr/Land%20Rovers/AtalantaLandy_zps66c71019.jpg (http://s254.photobucket.com/user/StX_RdRunr/media/Land%20Rovers/AtalantaLandy_zps66c71019.jpg.html)

[disco2hse]

Nice. Very nice indeed :)