Somehow it came up in a bike thread that I'd built a Land Yacht and people would like to see it, so I figured I'd put that here.
See, all you gotta do is bolt some wheels onto your boat...
Ok actually there's a whole lot of other minor details to sort out, but it can be done.
It's a 1974 Reined 24 footer. It's got an '88 Olds Quad-4 engine with a front-drive transaxle and suspension mounted in the rear, where the engine compartment originally was. That gives it rear steering, so it turns like a boat.
The front suspension is leaf springs, mounted on transverse steel square tube, cut from the boat's original trailer.
You drive up front. The steering box is an old Subaru differential, with shafts going to the rear. I used bicycle parts in it... I cut some bottom brackets out of old bikes, cut off the cranks, welded U-joints on and used them as carrier bearings. There's a sprocket on the end of the steering shaft at the rear, with a bike chain on it that goes to another bike sprocket on the cut-down original steering column to make the steering work. The gas pedal is a bike brake lever. There's all sorts of other stuff...
See, all you gotta do is bolt some wheels onto your boat...
Ok actually there's a whole lot of other minor details to sort out, but it can be done.
It's a 1974 Reined 24 footer. It's got an '88 Olds Quad-4 engine with a front-drive transaxle and suspension mounted in the rear, where the engine compartment originally was. That gives it rear steering, so it turns like a boat.
The front suspension is leaf springs, mounted on transverse steel square tube, cut from the boat's original trailer.
You drive up front. The steering box is an old Subaru differential, with shafts going to the rear. I used bicycle parts in it... I cut some bottom brackets out of old bikes, cut off the cranks, welded U-joints on and used them as carrier bearings. There's a sprocket on the end of the steering shaft at the rear, with a bike chain on it that goes to another bike sprocket on the cut-down original steering column to make the steering work. The gas pedal is a bike brake lever. There's all sorts of other stuff...
