[quote=windwardde]So this might have limited interest, as I may have a unique situation, but thought I would ask the question and see if I can get any great/better ideas than I have come up with.
I leave my cat, mast up, on the beach in front of my home on the bay.
I have invested in two sets of beach wheels to ease the pain of bringing it up the beach - no issue backing it down the beach due to incline.
As I have aged, and the beach seems to have gotten more incline, I am looking for a simple winch to assist in hauling back up the beach. No access shoreside to pull with 4 wheeler, etc.. No motorized vehicles allowed on beach.
I do have a 4x4 post imbedded in concrete, directly shoreside of beached area for the cat.
The problem is that I have about 200 feet from beach area to launch. I used to have an old 12v harbor freight winch with battery. Technically worked fine, but could only get about 40 feet of cable on it. That led to looping a longer cable at the end and going back and forth every time I used up the 40 feet on the winch hub.
My idea is to mount a wheel stub axle to the 4x4 post. Mount a car wheel to the stub axle. This wheel would be the winch hub and I should be able to get a lot more cable on this larger "hub". Then weld a larger "boat lift wheel" to the hub. Simple take the large diameter boat lift wheel as the manual winch and once boat is on the 2 sets of beach wheels, hand winch it up the beach. I suppose I could power it if I wanted, but thinking the large boat lift wheel might be enough torque, even by hand.
Anyone tried something like this?
Thoughts?
I know this site has some crazy creative sailors with solutions
Thanks, in advance, for insights here.[/quote]
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