Boatworld kayak Boat 365 and an Outboard engine - Launch wheels question

[deadsquirrel]

If you have that boat with an outboard engine, what launch wheels have you used? Im worried about clearance from the engine when the wheels are fully up. Im thinking of getting the boatworld heavy duty wheels that seem to have two positions in the hope it clears it. If it does not, ill modify it with a chain so it stays at around 45 degrees up.

Anyone have any tips?

[Fenlander]

From a casual look at online images that transom looks too narrow to fit launch wheels, even if you could get them on the idea of them clattering about held half tilted with a chain sounds very irritating.

However at 30kg for the boat and a max 6hp outboard which will be no trouble to carry surely this would be an easy outfit to launch without wheels? If you did want them though I might look at the slip under kayak/canoe type.

[deadsquirrel]

Originally Posted by Fenlander

From a casual look at online images that transom looks too narrow to fit launch wheels, even if you could get them on the idea of them clattering about held half tilted with a chain sounds very irritating.

However at 30kg for the boat and a max 6hp outboard which will be no trouble to carry surely this would be an easy outfit to launch without wheels? If you did want them though I might look at the slip under kayak/canoe type.

thanks for looking! I will be using it for spearfishing and mainly on my own so quite a bit of equipment like weights, gun, anchor, engine itself is 27kg, fuel etc. So would be good to have a decent solution for this if i can find one otherwise its quite a few trips back and forth from the car to the beach.

do you have a link for the type of wheels you meant?

[Fenlander]

Fully understand if you have lots of kit. We have so many individual items for a day out we usually set everything up and transom wheel to the water, sometimes several hundred metres.

I was thinking of this type of thing for you...

https://boatworld.co.uk/products/rib...CABEgJhD_D_BwE