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AZdave posted 09-30-2013 11:40 PM ET (US)
We were walking the beach at Anchor Point on the Kenai in southwestern Alaska. There are businesses which launch and recover boats with large tractors. We got to see one come in. The first three shots are about three seconds apart due to camera limitations. Note that the boat is partially on plane as it approaches the trailer. The tractor is pulling in the third shot. It seems that salt water immersion is not a good thing to do to a perfectly good tractor.
[url]http://s691.photobucket.com/user/davidtollefson/media/P1060943_zps591d97e5.jpg.html?sort=2&o=0[\url]
AZdave posted 09-30-2013 11:44 PM ET (US)
Let me try that again.

http://s691.photobucket.com/user/davidtollefson/media/ P1060943_zps591d97e5.jpg.html?sort=2&o=0
wannabe posted 10-01-2013 05:59 AM ET (US)
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
jimp posted 10-01-2013 12:56 PM ET (US)
That's been "ops normal" around Anchor Point and Cook Inlet for years. With +30-ft tides not every community has a launch ramp. The launch ramps on Cook Inlet are few and far between.
crabby posted 10-01-2013 09:51 PM ET (US)
On eastern Long Island, NY there may still be folks who beach launch their tin boats directly into the surf. My partner and I used to do it regularly back in the 1970s on the north side of Montauk Point with a 16 foot aluminum skiff and 4 wheel drive trucks and we were not alone. Our trailer had really fat floatation tires (for the sand). Sometimes we'd drag the boat out before loading it on the trailer due to nasty conditions, sometimes it would be a real mess with the waves, but usually it was a lot of fun (we were young and didn't mind the craziness).
JayR posted 10-05-2013 08:15 PM ET (US)
We've been putting in and taking out without a trailer on Cape Cod forever...
http://s65.photobucket.com/user/BigJayR/slideshow/boating/ Beaching?sort=3
dfmcintyre posted 10-06-2013 12:20 AM ET (US)
Uh, no password, no look.
EJO posted 10-08-2013 01:59 PM ET (US)
Boating published this a couple of months ago.
http://www.boatingmag.com/how-to/seamanship/extreme-boat-launches
Some juicy ones in there look at 16 the pictures.

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Author	Topic: Recovering with no ramp
AZdave	posted 09-30-2013 11:40 PM ET (US) We were walking the beach at Anchor Point on the Kenai in southwestern Alaska. There are businesses which launch and recover boats with large tractors. We got to see one come in. The first three shots are about three seconds apart due to camera limitations. Note that the boat is partially on plane as it approaches the trailer. The tractor is pulling in the third shot. It seems that salt water immersion is not a good thing to do to a perfectly good tractor. [url]http://s691.photobucket.com/user/davidtollefson/media/P1060943_zps591d97e5.jpg.html?sort=2&o=0[\url]
AZdave	posted 09-30-2013 11:44 PM ET (US) Let me try that again. http://s691.photobucket.com/user/davidtollefson/media/ P1060943_zps591d97e5.jpg.html?sort=2&o=0
wannabe	posted 10-01-2013 05:59 AM ET (US) Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
jimp	posted 10-01-2013 12:56 PM ET (US) That's been "ops normal" around Anchor Point and Cook Inlet for years. With +30-ft tides not every community has a launch ramp. The launch ramps on Cook Inlet are few and far between.
crabby	posted 10-01-2013 09:51 PM ET (US) On eastern Long Island, NY there may still be folks who beach launch their tin boats directly into the surf. My partner and I used to do it regularly back in the 1970s on the north side of Montauk Point with a 16 foot aluminum skiff and 4 wheel drive trucks and we were not alone. Our trailer had really fat floatation tires (for the sand). Sometimes we'd drag the boat out before loading it on the trailer due to nasty conditions, sometimes it would be a real mess with the waves, but usually it was a lot of fun (we were young and didn't mind the craziness).
JayR	posted 10-05-2013 08:15 PM ET (US) We've been putting in and taking out without a trailer on Cape Cod forever... http://s65.photobucket.com/user/BigJayR/slideshow/boating/ Beaching?sort=3
dfmcintyre	posted 10-06-2013 12:20 AM ET (US) Uh, no password, no look.
EJO	posted 10-08-2013 01:59 PM ET (US) Boating published this a couple of months ago. http://www.boatingmag.com/how-to/seamanship/extreme-boat-launches Some juicy ones in there look at 16 the pictures.