Ouch!

[Surfrat]

While walking home from storing my camper at storage facility, I past a body fender place. Sitting out in it's yard was a sad looking camper. Now since there are not a lot of truck campers on Long Island I probably know it's owner. How it got wrecked I can only guess it hit one of Long Islands low Highway over passes.

[GWolfe]

Kinda looks to me like it was laid over on its side. Wouldn't there be more damage to the top along the front if it hit a bridge? I'm not familiar with the Long Island Parkway bridges though.

[stufarmer]

I'll bet someone from the west coat was visiting Long Island and had to learn about the notorious
Long Island Parkways the hard way.

[Kayteg1]

Grit dog wrote:

bighatnohorse wrote:

Grit dog wrote:


How slow should I go? I mean 70 mph and a 30mph head wind =........

. . .= 5 mpg
🙂

Lol thats about right if I had a hemi!
Even still I bet the diesel ain't doing very good in the mileage department either.

In last couple of months I made 4 trips between Las Vegas and San Francisco with 16' cargo trailer.
Going empty to SF I averaged 9 mpg, coming with about 9000 lb of cargo I averaged 11.2 mpg.
CC always set at 60 mph.
You can guess witch way winds blow on desert.

[RamblinAnne]

Stefonius wrote:
The TC damage on Long Island looks like a case of "I can take the Parkway... I'm not a truck!"

I would put money on that being the case. Those **** Long Island parkways!

[Grit_dog]

bighatnohorse wrote:

Grit dog wrote:


How slow should I go? I mean 70 mph and a 30mph head wind =........

. . .= 5 mpg
🙂

Lol thats about right if I had a hemi!
Even still I bet the diesel ain't doing very good in the mileage department either.

[HMS_Beagle]

The boat looks repairable, even fairly easily repairable. The camper not so much.

Nearly every camper uses the sidewall as a stressed skin to support the cabover. There needs to be some other structure as well (mainly to keep the skin from buckling). Surely cantilevering a 2x4 out 8 feet over the cab won't do to.

[joeshmoe]

Don't forget pressure test it. lol

Nolan...WTF? What a bummer. The fiberglass on these newer boats isn't as thick as it used. Ours is an old river boat, but it's built like a barge.

[Fish_mojo]

A little Eternabond ought to fix it right up......

[Stefonius]

The TC damage on Long Island looks like a case of "I can take the Parkway... I'm not a truck!"

[anutami]

No one was hurt except for my pride as a boat captain.

[bighatnohorse]

Grit dog wrote:


How slow should I go? I mean 70 mph and a 30mph head wind =........

. . .= 5 mpg
🙂

[Grit_dog]

Anutami, oh no!! Hope everyone was ok.
That's about my biggest fear. I can dodge wallys all day but submerged hazards are the real deal.
Bounced off a submerged stump once, got lucky and it was outside the fins/prop/rudder line, but scare the _____out of me, the guy on the wakeboard when I saw the boat jump out of the water!

[profdant139]

Simple answer to both the ding in the RV and the ding in the boat: duct tape!

Anutami, really sorry to see that damage. I hope no one was hurt in the collision with the rock!

[Grit_dog]

bighatnohorse wrote:

Grit dog wrote:

My old AF camper handles 100 mph buffeting just fine.......as long as there isn't a bridge in the way!

You should slow down a little.

How slow should I go? I mean 70 mph and a 30mph head wind =........