beaching

koozballs · Posted: Mar 17, 2015 4:34 pm Post subject: beaching

I live directly on the beach on lake michigan and was wondering what people do to keep their jet ski/small boat on the beach. One of the neighbors has a giant zodiac that he uses a small motor and a winch to pull up the beach but I don't need something that heavy duty. I was thinking maybe a hand winch would work or a plywood sled that would slide on the beach pretty easy (in my head)

Any other ideas/experiences

nick · Posted: Mar 18, 2015 7:32 am Post subject:

Got any photos of the shoreline? If it's mellow enough of an angle, you could arrange 2 HDPE pipes & a hand winch sort of like a stationary trailer. Drive it up on (maybe with a soft bumper in front in case you come in a little hot), & then crank it the rest of the way on...

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koozballs · Posted: Mar 18, 2015 5:49 pm Post subject:

nick, holy crap, why did I not think of this hahahah thanks Nick!!

https://instagram.com/p/tWBEJWKckp/?taken-by=koozballs

I need to pull it up toward that sea wall in front of my house, I would imagine I can just lay a few pipes in a row and then once it is up on the last set of pipes, I can just move the rest so they aren't in anybody's way. Pound a 4x4 pipe into the sand with a hand winch by the sea wall and boom.

We don't really have tides so I don't have to worry about it being washed away either

triggamike · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 1392 City: 225

damn thats a gorgeous set up man!

POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

If you set one ski facing out on the bank you could always ramp your ski onto the beach

Like so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmfWkAS583o

Very Happy

nick · Posted: Mar 20, 2015 8:47 pm Post subject:

koozballs, Dude! That is a beautiful perch Smash

POPTART, It's bizarre to think that the same species that figured out how to record HD video & transmit it instantly across the globe with strings of 1s & 0s also managed the extreme levels of mental deficiency required to make that clip happen... Humans are truly incredible Shocked

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jtexasglass · Posted: Mar 20, 2015 11:06 pm Post subject:

That was amazing. Thank you for that poptart.