my boat & ?????mooring in sydney [Archive] - Sydney Fish Finder Fishing Forum

sydneymick

25-03-10, 02:41 PM

:alcho meter:hi i just recently purshased this boat it has a trailer but with 2 young kids and a mrs who cant reverse the trailer i find it difficult to launch and retrive bymyself i am thinking of getting a mooring but lease for them are just to costly from a marina any suggestoins or maybe someone has a mooring for lease otherwise its on waiting list and wait wait wait any advice would be greatly appriciated

nuggos

25-03-10, 02:56 PM

teach ur misses

kingyfisher

25-03-10, 05:33 PM

teach ur misses

YOU have a LOT to learn sunshine !

beats

25-03-10, 07:52 PM

Exactly, LMFAO @ Nuggos.
My advice would be go to boatramps at off peak times & teach yourself to do these things by yourself, seem to me maybe your boat is not quite what you really needed & is the biggest problem in the equation. maybe you needed a boat that could be driven on & much easier to use one on one.

fish fingers

28-03-10, 10:19 PM

Mate, local carpark after hours get her down there and after a week or two of a few arvos a week she will be on the way. I taught my mrs that way with a few witches hats to mark a 20m long area and she now drives comfortably with the trailer in forward and reverse.

Slowly narrow the witches hats and as hard as it is try not to yell too much.

RC1

02-04-10, 10:50 AM

:alcho meter:hi i just recently purshased this boat it has a trailer but with 2 young kids and a mrs who cant reverse the trailer i find it difficult to launch and retrive bymyself i am thinking of getting a mooring but lease for them are just to costly from a marina any suggestoins or maybe someone has a mooring for lease otherwise its on waiting list and wait wait wait any advice would be greatly appriciated

I have a mooring in Bermagui harbour/creek with no boat on it you could use.
You didn't say where you wanted the mooring.
Roger

Hamuwaja

15-04-10, 10:34 AM

mine can't drive.

but i have taken her down, and taught her what to do, so that i can drive the boat off the trailer, and she then meets me to tie it up. I will soon show her how to drive the boat on and off the trailer. Then we wont clog the ramp..

However, saying that, i use the royal motor at newport, and its never clogged, as you need to be a boat owner member to have an access pass to get in there. Lucky my dad has one..

I think though, once i show her how to do the drive on and off, we can trial it at places like bayview.

I am confident she can do it at sandy point with me, as you just take the boat off manually, and pull it up on the sand bside the ramp..

Maybe you need to find a ramp with sand next to it to pull up on...

Or, could teach her how to drive the boat off or on the trailer?

P.S- The ramp, has the jetty along side it, so its pretty much like at low tide, you could simply launch by yourself, keep hold of the bow rope, and tie it off the jetty while standing in the water next to the trailer...