Has anyone here boated over this bridge?

[Presentation]

Boat over a bridge, LOL, that just sounds crazy.

Or should I ask if you boated over this highway? Still crazy.

 

[Quint4]

Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?

 

[trit21]

Wouldn't that be called a tunnel? Ask the guys in NY/NJ about boating over the Lincoln or Holland tunnels, I am sure quite a few have done it.

 

[techmitch]

Is that the Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel? Sure looks like it. I have been over/through it many times but never got down that far by boat.

 

[Four Suns]

I know that bridge...

That's the Monitor-Merrimack Bridge Tunnel in Hampton Roads. Looking at the left of the picture is a big coal terminal (bunch-o-trains coming down from the mountains... you can the piles of coal in the picture) and next to that is the Newport News Shipyard with a couple aircraft carriers being built or worked on... on the right is a port with a bunch of fishing boats...

Generally good fishing over that tunnel... I keep my boat a few miles from there.

 

[Odyssey]

Not over that bridge but I boated over these 2....

Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas

LasOlas in Fort Lauderdale

 

[Stray Cat]

Doesn't look tsunami proof, then maybe it doesn't have to be.

 

[Four Suns]

It's not even hurricane proof.

 

[chuck1]

Not over that one, but how about the water bridge at Disney World between the two lakes. Not sure if you can even do it any more. It was like 30 years ago when we did it in the little Sea Ray boats you could rent back then.

 

[floriduramax1]

Boat over a bridge, LOL, that just sounds crazy.

Or should I ask if you boated over this highway? Still crazy.

That is just plain cool! I need (will) to get out more...lol

 

[dicor]

I've traveled that road and used that Bay bridge Tunnel many times. It's weird by car about 5 miles long, they have 2 tunnels on it and when your coming up on the tunnel it seems as if the road is taking you straight into the bay, then down you go. Costs about $20 each way.

 

[Creekwood]

Nope, but a few of us Canadians rode this contraption over Highway 34 near Port Severn Ontario.

 

[Woody]

Nope, but a few of us Canadians rode this contraption over Highway 34 near Port Severn Ontario.

Creekwood, what are the boats sitting on, and whatever it is, how do they go about knowing it's in the right position before they start lifting?

 

[Stray Cat]

Oh, now that is just nuts....that is a portage on steroids! Wonder how many bent shafts are a result of that haul out!

 

[floriduramax1]

Nope, but a few of us Canadians rode this contraption over Highway 34 near Port Severn Ontario.

WTH!!! that is cool too!

 

[Iprof]

Boat over a bridge, LOL, that just sounds crazy.

Or should I ask if you boated over this highway? Still crazy.

Well how about boating on a bridge 126 feet above the ground.

http://www.waterscape.com/canals-and-rivers/llangollen-canal

Ken

 

[Creekwood]

Its called the Big Chute Marine Railway on the Trent-Severn canal waterway system that goes from Lake Ontario all the way to Georgian Bay on Lake Huron.

The Cradle rides on rails up and out of the water on one side of the road, carries the boats over the road and down a steep hill into the river below. Boats are held using straps like a travel-lift. It is safe, but when you are on it, it doesn't feel safe, especially going down. You stay on your vessel because at the end, you are back in the water and drive off.

Here is a short Youtube of it in action.
[video=youtube;DeAmril0mpI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAmril0mpI&feature=player_detailpage[/video]

 

[Iprof]

Oh, now that is just nuts....that is a portage on steroids! Wonder how many bent shafts are a result of that haul out!

That's Big Chute, we have been on it many times. The chance of bending a shaft are all most zero, there are hydraulic cylinders with belts that sling the stern and the bow, they lower the bow to touch the wood platform as they bring you out of the water. There is a traffic light as they do take you over a road. The reason there is no lock, is to keep the lamprey eel in Georgian Bay out of the canal system.

Ken

 

[kevinmc]

Check out this river over a river.
http://wikimapia.org/2279597/Water-Bridge-over-river-Elbe-Magdeburg

 

[Gofirstclass]

OK, here's a question for you engineer types.....In the setup that creekwood showed, where you have one lift going up and the other coming down, if one of them has a boat in it and the other is empty, is the total weight of the load with the boat greater than, equal to, or less than the one without the boat?

BTW, I know the answer.