[Leica] Grandpa's Boat

Tue Dec 20 19:34:56 PST 2022

My grandpa carried it in his pickup bed. Its light enough that one person can load it and unload it if you're careful. My grandma gave me the truck after he died and I drove it for several years until the transmission died and the cost to fix it was more than it was worth. I had a Crown Victoria after that and I have a small trailer for the boat that the Crown Vic could pull. My current car is a Cadillac CTS and the owners manual says that it was not designed to tow a trailer and should never be used for that. I'll take GM at their word on that; the car was too expensive to risk damaging it.

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On 12/20/22, 9:47 PM, "LUG on behalf of Sonny Carter via LUG" <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    We usta put a similar fishing boat in the back of a pickup, no trailer.  It
    stuck out, but it was easily loaded and unloaded by two people.

    On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 6:59 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

    > Any sort of car should be able to pull a trailer with a lightweight
    > aluminium fishing punt. Most of those boats weigh 100kg or a lot less.
    > You shouldn't need a pickup or anything beefy to shift it.
    >
    > On 20/12/2022 23:42, Christopher Crawford wrote:
    > > I need to buy a pickup truck or something I can pull a trailer with
    > first; so for now the boat is stranded. It is still in perfect mechanical
    > condition, it does not leak or anything.
    > >
    >
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    Sonny
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    Natchitoches, Louisiana
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