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Building a home with a garage for a cigarette
I’m building a home with storage for a cigarette boat I want the garage to be long enough to store a 46’ boat WITH THE TRAILER. Right now the engineer has the garage at 51.5ft long. Is that long enough? Who can I contact and ask besides Lipships? I tired calling them but they aren’t “equipped” to answer such questions (to put it nicely). Thank you e |
Not long enough. It needs to be 60ft minimum IMO.
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My 42' is 51' on the trailer.
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It always needs to be bigger, what happens if you get a longer boat someday?
IMO you can never have enough garage, built a 30x48 and later a 40x64. My buddy had the right Idea, 40x104, or at least the right idea at this time :bananalove: |
If you can go as big as you want at this point, go with a minimum of 75' deep or so. This will allow you to keep any 38'-ish foot boat AND the tow rig on the same side. This is favorable so you can get all set for a trip, packed up AND hitched up ahead of time. Converse goes for when you get home late, and you want to stick the whole thing in the garage and go to bed.
A good rule of thumb & conservative measurement is boat length plus 7 feet. Any kind of stand off boxes and/or SSM/surface drives? Add ~2 feet. And remember that a drive guard is a sound investment behind that kind of high dollar hardware, which might be another foot on the trailer. |
My 38 top gun on a Manning trailer with drive guard just fit into my 51' long building. I had about 1.5 - 2 feet behind the guard. As has been stated - make your building/garage as long as possible. I was restricted to 51'.
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Originally Posted by dcb
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My 38 top gun on a Manning trailer with drive guard just fit into my 51' long building. I had about 1.5 - 2 feet behind the guard. As has been stated - make your building/garage as long as possible. I was restricted to 51'.
And a garage much longer starts to get too punitive; not only the cost but the ingress and egress from the road and the general look of the house with a super long garage sticking off it. At that point, I will just pay my marina to store it along with my other boat. Maybe I need to rethink this. Damn it. e |
ya hang a 60 footer on the side of a house it starts looking like a drive through car wash.......maybe some were thinking detached shop ?? some trailers have a longer tongue than others and if it has a drive guard that adds another 3-4 ft....mine is 50 deep and there's about 4 ft in the rear of the boat, my 38 on a Pacific trailer is about 46 ft.
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I'm building one right now. My 42 tiger is 48 feet on the trailer
60' garage - 1.5 feet for foundation walls inside will leave me approx. 5' in front and in back add tool boxes to the back wall and it will shrink some more. Going with 12'6" ceiling height but leaving the back 20' open so I can raise the hatch all the way open 10' tall door |
Ask the engineer/designer to make a 60’ garage look good. Nobody is going to notice another 8.5’. Also ensure you have lots of door width to eliminate pinch points. A few months back there was a thread where members helped design another members shop! |
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