Thebadfisherman wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 5:44 pm
Hi there,
I have a holden crewman with 2500kg towing capacity, and was wondering if this converts to the same for launching a boat, as I love the car and don't want to upgrade and want to know what it is probably capable of, couldn't find much of this online, except to bring kitty litter if you start slipping. Already have an old small 4.3m runabout~400kg, and when retrieving at black rock got a fair bit of wheel spin(lots of weed on the ramp), would a bigger boat have more weight on the rear for more grip or does it only go so far?
Bigger boat is harder to pull up.
Slim at low tide is always and issue for RWD.
For two drive cars FWD often does better purely as the front wheels are out of the slime.
4WD is a massive advantage but if you are going to keep you current car the following helps a lot.
Really good tyres, reducing tyre pressure, ie going down to 20psi, if you have an auto left foot firm on the brake and right foot on the throttle as this will semi lock an open diff. If you have a manual use the handbrake.
With a bigger boat if you have two people use the boat motor to push the car up the ramp at the start to get the car moving.