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Subject: [Leica] Grandpa's Boat
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Christopher Crawford)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:34:56 -0500
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My grandpa carried it in his pickup bed. Its light enough that one person 
can load it and unload it if you're careful. My grandma gave me the truck 
after he died and I drove it for several years until the transmission died 
and the cost to fix it was more than it was worth. I had a Crown Victoria 
after that and I have a small trailer for the boat that the Crown Vic could 
pull. My current car is a Cadillac CTS and the owners manual says that it 
was not designed to tow a trailer and should never be used for that. I'll 
take GM at their word on that; the car was too expensive to risk damaging it.

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?On 12/20/22, 9:47 PM, "LUG on behalf of Sonny Carter via LUG" 
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of 
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    We usta put a similar fishing boat in the back of a pickup, no trailer.  
It
    stuck out, but it was easily loaded and unloaded by two people.
    
    On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 6:59 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
    
    > Any sort of car should be able to pull a trailer with a lightweight
    > aluminium fishing punt. Most of those boats weigh 100kg or a lot less.
    > You shouldn't need a pickup or anything beefy to shift it.
    >
    > On 20/12/2022 23:42, Christopher Crawford wrote:
    > > I need to buy a pickup truck or something I can pull a trailer with
    > first; so for now the boat is stranded. It is still in perfect 
mechanical
    > condition, it does not leak or anything.
    > >
    >
    >
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    Natchitoches, Louisiana
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