Barge to carry a single pick-up truck

That alone sounds like a good enough reason for having your own landing craft.
Go for it!

 

What appears to be a pole in the picture are "hammer leads" for driving pilings using a drop hammer. Drop hammers used to be everywhere, today they are being outlawed (due to underwater noise) in favour of vibratory hammers.

 

Realistically a loaded landing craft will only meet ISO Category C requirements and that standard will limit your operations. TC doesn't "decide" anything, they approve or deny your submissions. The boat will have to be designed working to the Cat C standard. An un-maned barge will avoid this certification, though TC can limit or halt voyages it deems unsafe, this only comes up if you're doing something really dumb.

 

So for the original SOR. Looks like the LC will be a couple year's pay and that's a ways off. My original thought is back. The 33' by 12' landing barge to be pushed by Serenity. I can make it for about 30k, in two months. I know glass epoxy on wood, so that it will be. Scantlings... I'll have to have someone weld up some landing skids. Glass can't survive a landing on these shores.

 

Going back to reread some of @baeckmo 's posts early in Sea Sled Information he mentioned a number of barges used locally that are sea sled hull form. Presumably the NA's who designed and built them had the qualifications necessary to make such a judgement. So there must be something there. If they were failures I doubt he would have mentioned them.

 

Who designed them?

 

So, who designed them?

 

I don't know. Maybe he'll read this and chime in. @baeckmo

 

Landing barge for sale - $78000 https://victoria-bc.canadianlisted.com/boats-yachts-and-parts/landing-barge-for-sale-78000_3879070.html

@bajansailor pointed this one out. I'd enjoy building my own more, but if I'm building, I'm not doing billable hours.

 

Probably an inhouse Coast Guard venture. A bunch were built with up north in kind of a "local work aid program".

 

Nice landing barge.
And, it comes with a 12' colour monitor!!
That's huge!

 

I wondered about that. I thought maybe 12 arc minutes of resolution? But they really aren't providing proper information.

 

12" I suspect.

 

That makes a lot more sense.

 

Have you visioned on HOW COME YOU CAN NOT BUY A FOLDED BARGE thread the latest Myark folding amphibious self trailer barge that when empty floats in 2 inches of water and is surveyed for 8000kg yet in folded trailer form weight is 2.3 tone.
With no load the Myark will plane with a 60hp propulsion.
I have many more Myark designs superior that would suit your needs.
No mooring, little land space for storage and your truck becomes amphibious to venture or hire out in far away regions etc.