I need a ferry, but the apocalypse will have rallysprints

I hadn't realized, until doing to digital searching, that the gravel and hardpacked sand ring roads had been completed on the 1100 acre post apocalyptic hideaway. Now who has a ferry? 

Anyone capable of GRMing a ferry together can join, Pete, Woody, Brett Murray and myself of the island. There is fresh water on the island and well and limited electric, bring solar and we'll need to get started on farming soon. Yellow perch and striped bass are already in the water and white perch should be showing up in 8-10 weeks. 

In reply to captdownshift :

I thought Pete found a ferry for sale on C/L a couple months ago?

In reply to sleepyhead the buffalo :

Already messaged him about it, it's still for sale but over $500k

I think we can put something together cheaper. And the ferry is likely too large for the docks at the island. 

AAA won't tow to the island, even with a premier membership.

You guys are overthinking this, for light cars an old pontoon boat to use like a barge should do. 

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/wsh/fod/d/downing-235-ft-barge-platform-on-33-ft/7087013929.html

how heavy of a car ?  add 2 more pontoons and you could easily float a 323 or golf.. 

Gonna require some Cuban ingenuity...

Or...

There's always the Top Gear route to solve this problem.

1SlowVW said:

You guys are overthinking this, for light cars an old pontoon boat to use like a barge should do. 

I was getting there while you type this.

according to this site:
https://pontoonopedia.com/pontoon-weight-calculator/

you need enough capacity in one pontoon to float the whole cargo weight.  So, using FbC's 33ft pontoon... (and assuming 2ft diamtere pontoons), it'd be good for ~8000lbs.  Now we just need a higgin's boat ramp attached to the front.

In reply to sleepyhead the buffalo :

There's a beach on the west side of the island, some 16' long 2x8s tripled up should support a light enough car. 

I'd want to see rescue boats and guys in scuba gear along some of those roads before I'd go ten-tenths. You guys can start without me.

914 posted the solution in the gifs thread a while ago.

captdownshift said:

In reply to sleepyhead the buffalo :

There's a beach on the west side of the island, some 16' long 2x8s tripled up should support a light enough car. 

at ~2miles over water... I think you're going to want 3-4 pontoon boats for an operation of any size.  Fortunately it should be... relatively protected?

In reply to sleepyhead the buffalo :

I think you, mr caffeine, and myself were all headed in the same direction. And we all know if 3 people come to the same solution independently it must be correct. 

In reply to sleepyhead the buffalo :

Once inside drum point it's well protected. There's a private launch north of Rocky point that's shallow water, but pontoon boat friendly, that'll shorten the trip and make avoid the least sheltered part

In reply to John Welsh :

John I think you're onto something - the first stage of the rally should be sailing your rally car to the island. It would have to be under its own power and not on a boat or barge, though allowing extra/detachable floatation devices sounds like a good safety plan.