I wish we had a travel lift at our club.
Here every boat has its own cradle and the mast is removed before haul out.
Some boat even have their cradle mounted on two and three axles trailers.
Using heavy boom truck and crane we have haul out (without the mast) 4 - 6
boat an hour.
When the working group is well in tune and under pressure we have haul out
as much as one boat every 6 - 7 minutes. Having your boat on land during a
big blow is not a guarantee that you will avoid damages. One year a tree
felt on my house but not on my boat.
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I have heard of marinas that insist on vacating during storms and I
think that is reprehensible. During such events all available
hurricane holes are filled. Around here, there is only a single
sometimes working travel lift 35 miles away and they do not seem to be
able to haul more than 4 boats/day. I suppose that if I lived in a
place with working lifts I would want her hauled if it really looked
like high probability of a hit.