How come you can't buy a folding trailerable pontoon barge?

http://rollingbarge.com/floating-dock-converted-into-a-camper-barge/

Comparing the Rolling Barge with a Myark folding trailer barge, it is wide when towing also it needs a trailer to be loaded onto, with the barge structure not strong like the Myark folding trailer barge, Myark 10 metre folding trailer barge can float over 12 tonne and takes a short time to assemble.
I cannot find any where on the web a folding self trailer pontoon towed by a a RV camper van allowing amphibious travel in style.

 

This folding pontoon has to have a trailer and to wide and awkward to lauch and over weight with trailer, nice try though.

 

.

http://www.gizmag.com/inflatable-ferry-hovercraft/40499/

This one is inflatable and rolls up to a size you can put in the vehicle. It has a landing craft type loading ramp on the front...



It's available in different sizes also...

 

Thank you Sam for that picture which is inspiring.

The price is very good, and it works, but it would take a long time to assemble each time and take a lot of car space unless they have a trailer, also I would say not strong enough to hold 13 ton with out structural damage like my early proto type Myark folding trailer barge safely carried 13 tones in shallow water pictured.

I read on your link they also created the Quadrofoil, what a great innovated company

 

i can see a market here in the north during wet season. .a self rescue barge that can stowed on a vehicle operating in flood prone areas. There is no other barge that is so versatile that i have seen. It looks like it will handle a bit of rough water on a lake too. I have seen other barges on the forum but the designer stated they could be sunk by waves a few inchs high. Not a good feeling a mile offshore when a squall blows through.

 

Having another look at their design it to much mucking around assembling and would say not last long under strenuous conditions especially coral reefs and surf.
The load is limited and needs trailer or truck to load and would hate to be the one that has to roll it up and lift it around.
There is a promising future for my latest design Myark folding trailer barges if that's the best there is on the market.
In NZ I made lots of $ hiring out several Myark trailer barges to the USA movie industry and other commercial marine industry and many forms of work that I was only company available which is 10 minutes to launch and retrieve a barge that is capable of 13 tone in choppy seas and can be beached and launched in any location such as I had entered an extreme surf harbor entrances no other boat was able and used the Myark folding trailer barge as a super large surfboard, lots of fun.

 

Bugger. I am making him increase the self promotion.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUZQPDSBzF4

 

http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/folding-travel-trailer-top-pontoon-boat-34441-4.html

This a boat design member Stackman product he makes that is similar but looks stronger

 

Hi. My name is Mark and I have been reading everything you have written and invented re myark trailerable barges. I'm a kiwi 65 just lost my wife to cancer and an engineer mechanic. While I see you are not interested in building the barges anymore can I buy plans. We have motorhomes and boated all our lives in nz but really want to do motorhome (4x4 with truck camper) on barge . Brilliant idea. You had so much opposition I cant believe it. Non folding but with outrigger walkways capable. 4000kg. Any help appreciated.

 

I was thinking that an a 8' wide A-frame on a jon boat with pontoons under wooden decks that folds upward to maintain the 8' width.

 

Earth Bound
You may be interested in my latest design and manufacturing of a 9.m x 4.4 x .750 Myark folding self trailer barge that has a weight of 2,300kg and a carry load for 15 ton.
The Myark barge needs two inches of water to float and can be towed by a car.
It will be about 3 months to complete and then marketed internationally at unbeatable price, also I am about to start full time again making a range of sizes and shapes.
Later on when have time I will start a new topic on boat design and explain more.

 

Hi Mark
Sorry not responding earlier as I missed your post and just found this now.
It would be a pleasure to give you any advice you may need.
I am sad to hear your wife past away.

 

This thread is "how come you cannot buy a folding trailable pontoon barge.
The answer is you can.
Pictured below is my latest design Myark folding self-trailer-able pontoon barge that is 90% completed and soon on the market.
Unfortunately, at this stage I cannot show on the public domain the workings on how the barge actually unfolds-folds, as its patents applications are still in progress, however I can give a basic sneak idea what it looks like in self-folding trailer-able stage as it stands and in the unfolded stage without exploiting the patents application.
The Myark unfolds with one-person with a press of a button which takes in total 10 minutes on land or water.
It's surveyed for 8-ton load on deck and the total weight of the Myark is 2.3 ton which my trusty AU Ford Falcon easily tows.
I towed the Myark barge on a windy day over 70mph for a test trial and was incredibly stable which would be because of the plug-in torsion suspension and weight distributed correctly.
I use my normal kick up in front and back bottom hull similar to my friend the late Brain Jacksons Caracat which allows the barge back end to act like a hydrofoil because the back-end levels of with the surface of the water and why Brain Jacksons Caracat won many open long distance launch ocean races including the best fuel consumption over that 60-mile distance race.
This Myark pictured is calculated to float in less than 2'' of water and needs a 60hp electric propulsion pivotal drive surface propulsion to plane, also as from my experience with a larger prototype 10. x 4.8 Myark that easily planned with a 60 hp petrol out board.
I have also a smaller pontoon model that is 650kg that does not need to be braked and floats 3 ton on deck which is suited for the 4x4 off road vehicles or a household small car that this design also is a pop out camper for land or water amphibious travel while camping in remote wilderness lakes, rivers, islands and harbors.
I will soon manufacture in China hands on which four of these Myarks can stow in one 20' container keeping shipping cost direct to the USA affordable.
I have also been making a film documentary while building the Myark pictured to show the difficulties doing so against all the odds while in litigation as a self-representee plaintiff in a human rights matter since 2016 against 8 pettifogger corrupt government and their insurance lawyers which ended in a 6.5 trial and again all alone which I am accustomed to hence the film documentary and soon podcast to expose myself on the public domain.

 

I am interested on what happens to the wheel bearings and breaks after a few days submerged in salt water.