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