Fortescue river launching
Submitted by Rob H on Wed, 2024-07-17 15:39
Those who are familiar with launching at Fortescue, what's a minimum tide to launch large trailer boats here?
Someone else besides Justin told me a while back they'd launched there heaps and if I needed to know anything call.
Fucked if I can remember who though 
One of the hazards when you get old enough to afford to do shit, you can't remember what it was
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Percula
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How big?
Have launched mine there on pretty low tide. 6.2m loaded no worries.
Retrieving though you would need some help at low tide. mid to high tide easy.
I don't know the numbers though......
Yewiefish85
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Maybe Dodgy?, pretty sure he
Maybe Dodgy?, pretty sure he has done his fair share and then some of launch and retrieves from there
dodgy
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Could of been me. I've done
Could of been me. I've done it on a dead low a couple of times. It's not the water depth that's the problem. It's the steepnsss of the ramp.
Trailer is on that much angle that the boat is floating above the trailer while trying to retrieve. And then you need a bit of a run to drag up the ramp while struggling to get the hull to settle central on the trailer.
And launching fully loaded you need to float the boat off. Easy to submerge the outboards if you aren't paying attention.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Brock O
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I cant help with the
I cant help with the question...but fk that me laugh!
One of the hazards when you get old enough to afford to do shit, you can't remember what it was
Rob H
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Thanks guys, had a bit by PM
Thanks guys, had a bit by PM as well.
Putting this on hold for a couple of days, got home from work this morning, packing boat for islands tomorrow arvo
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Nice weather window!
Nice weather window!