Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post


I was thinking something more like an El Toro or a Sunfish.

Your main problem is the WEIGHT. (And then, still, the length.)

You'd need to link your bike brakes with brakes on the trailer, and I don't know if that's possible; and you'd need MONSTER forearms to be able to brake it in any case.

I wouldn't do it.
Don't worry, I am probably too lazy! I just thought that I would throw the idea out there. Because I am frustrated about the boat sitting unused. My boat is a Lido. But the only real advantage to the Lido is that it happens to be sitting in the driveway.

But thanks for the idea of looking for a car-topper.

Actually, I am probably only thinking in this direction because the desire to buy a car has been recurring several times a day.

On the other hand, I do live in Portland, and I see plenty of tall bikes, and other contraptions. So I could find the local resources are out there to help me, if it can be done.

Last year at the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, Washington, there was a darling little boat that someone made specifically to be tow by bike. It used skin and frame construction. Unfortunately, every time I visited the boat, the owner wasn't around.

BUT... If I could rig the Lido to camp in on land, and get a custom rig to haul it, gee, I would have a sweet little toy! (Again, if I had the energy to move it anywhere.)

FUNNY.. over the weekend I had said I wanted to travel by sailboat, and someone said I couldn't find a slower way TO travel. But I think I just did! Drag the sailboat around with a bicycle! LOL