Viper wrote:Source of the post they also like the portability of smaller boats, great for cottages, etc. etc.
I like the pictures of 28" Carvers on trailers being considered portable... no way you can get around Europe with a combination like that 
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Re: Poll for NEW boat purchases.
I like the pictures of 28" Carvers on trailers being considered portable... no way you can get around Europe with a combination like that Share your Carver experiences, share marine life. Donate when you can but post what your Carver adds to your life too!
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Re: Poll for NEW boat purchases.
Here in Maryland, many people tow 42' go fast boats every weekend.
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Re: Poll for NEW boat purchases.
2.55m (8.37 feet) wide and 8m (26.25 feet) long is most common. IN rare cases and with special permission 3m (9.84 feet) wide is allowed.
Mastlength varies a bit between 7.50m (UK) and 10m (32.81 feet) (most other countries)
However, the roads (especially the furniture around them like posts, signs, lights, houses, world) are not very kind to sizes outside the 'box' of a cargo trailer/truck combination (13.12 feet high and 8,37 wide) so you can get quite far but hard to get close to the water.
Besides that, the cars are not the size like pick-up trucks in the US as here they are taxed on weight and/or power and/or emissions. Plus they don't fit in the streets and parking lots. Big hassle for the few times you haul your boat around.
On the other hand: distances are relatively short so having the boat in a marina elsewhere is less of an issue as in the US, I suppose.
Although countries differ in their requirements for owning/leaving/using a boat.
Sounds easy on your side: have the boat at home for maintenance, hook it up and dip it into a lake of choice and get going. No marina box fees, no fouling, no hauling all your gear and tools there and back.
If I had a trailer for our 28 sedan I couldn't park it on my property but it would make winter storage a huge amount easier.
Back to topic: I think it's different if you can take your boat home instead of leaving your investment in the water/marina and only see it when you either have to because of problems or want to when the weather turns nice. For the people who buy a boat to go boating that is, higher incomes look at things differently.
Mastlength varies a bit between 7.50m (UK) and 10m (32.81 feet) (most other countries)
However, the roads (especially the furniture around them like posts, signs, lights, houses, world) are not very kind to sizes outside the 'box' of a cargo trailer/truck combination (13.12 feet high and 8,37 wide) so you can get quite far but hard to get close to the water.
Besides that, the cars are not the size like pick-up trucks in the US as here they are taxed on weight and/or power and/or emissions. Plus they don't fit in the streets and parking lots. Big hassle for the few times you haul your boat around.
On the other hand: distances are relatively short so having the boat in a marina elsewhere is less of an issue as in the US, I suppose.
Although countries differ in their requirements for owning/leaving/using a boat.
Sounds easy on your side: have the boat at home for maintenance, hook it up and dip it into a lake of choice and get going. No marina box fees, no fouling, no hauling all your gear and tools there and back.
If I had a trailer for our 28 sedan I couldn't park it on my property but it would make winter storage a huge amount easier.
Back to topic: I think it's different if you can take your boat home instead of leaving your investment in the water/marina and only see it when you either have to because of problems or want to when the weather turns nice. For the people who buy a boat to go boating that is, higher incomes look at things differently.
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Re: Poll for NEW boat purchases.
Buying a new boat is something for the "Rich" my wife always use to say.
Thank god I am a rich man,
Just bought my first new boat, not for myself but since I am so rich, I bought one for my Grand daughter.
Thank god I am a rich man,
Just bought my first new boat, not for myself but since I am so rich, I bought one for my Grand daughter.
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