Launching with Beach Wheels

[Alangaq]

I am curious to know how many of you guys launch your 4+ meter SIB’s solo with beach wheels and how you go about doing it… do you launch with or without the motor on the transom? Rocky beaches like the one shown in these pictures or sandy beaches? How do you remove the beach wheels from the transom once you have launched into the water.

As you can see from the pictures, I elected to just launch with the trailer and ATV yesterday, however my trailer is rather tall and requires me to get way out into the water if the shore slope is gradual as it was here.

I am fairly confident that if I had a couple of guys with me that we could man-handle it into the water with the beach wheels, but normally I only have the wife and little ones along and it would be more than they could handle, or that I would ask of them. In the next couple of weeks I plan on launching from a different beach that is very tidal and composed of rather fine grained sand. I am worried about the beach wheels sinking down into the sand and basically rendering the SIB immobile….

Thanks in advance for your comments and suggestions.

[Alangaq]

On a different note…. Once on the water we had a very nice day trip and the family was able to enjoy the sceanary and calm seas. Did not venture far enough out for Halibut or Rockfish, but did get into a couple of schools of Herring and Tom-Cod so the kids had a great time fishing.

[prairie tuber]

I'll be interested in seeing the different ideas on this as well. There was a recent thread on here about a very slick beach cart/highway trailer combo where the sib sat on a beach cart which in turn sat on a highway trailer. I'm wanting to design a collapsible cart that can be folded into a compact enough package that it can be easily transported on the boat then be used for portages. I currently have a pair of these tires http://www.casterland.com/webstore/p...d=3119&sub=255 mounted on some very sturdy plastic rims that will be used for this.

I'm sure that if you had a set of floatation tires of this size or wider on your ATV trailer, it would not likely bog down in sandy bottoms.

Also 'Rogan' has a nice beach cart setup that uses 3 pairs of flotation tires. I'll see if I have an image of it in my picture bank.

[prairie tuber]

Not Rogan's but a couple of other interesting images: