wrote

Last year they haul out a 35 feet sailboat using a square steel
frame, long
slings and a heavy duty boom truck.

Pretty much standard procedure to use a spreader bar and a couple of
slings for bulky stuff like sail boats.

The boat listed about 10 degrees but once in its cradle or water it
was
fine.

NBD

Never the less it does not give a warm feeling I would much prefer
using a travel lift.

Once boat is in cradle, how do they move it to winter storage
location?

Lew

"Wayne.B" wrote:

It depends on the boat and it depends on the boat yard. If you have
a
multi-spreader mast with rod rigging and a lot of electronics the
total cost can easily exceed $2000 for unstepping, dissassembly,
storage, re-assembly, tuning, etc.

Probably be cheaper to head south for the winter even using paid crew
both ways.

Lew
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"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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wrote

Last year they haul out a 35 feet sailboat using a square steel
frame, long
slings and a heavy duty boom truck.

Pretty much standard procedure to use a spreader bar and a couple of
slings for bulky stuff like sail boats.

The boat listed about 10 degrees but once in its cradle or water it
was
fine.

NBD

Never the less it does not give a warm feeling I would much prefer
using a travel lift.

Once boat is in cradle, how do they move it to winter storage
location?

Lew


The cradle is pick up by an hydraulic trailer build like a U. The trailer
backs up with one steel channel on each side of the cradle. Once in the
proper position cross channels are pushed under the cradle and secured in
place. Then the hydraulic cylinders raise the cradle upward. When the
correct height is reached the cradle is secure with chain and pins to the
trailer. The truck and trailer then go to the haul out area and waits for
the boat to be placed on its cradle.
When the sailboat is well secured on the trailer it is haul away to
destination. To unload the cradle and sailboat the reverse process is used.
Once on the hard the cradle is levelled and blocked for the winter.
Over here most sailboat owners live close to the Yacht club. About 35 % of
the sailboats are store in their owners backyard or beside their house. My
27 feet sailboat was stored in my backyard during the winter for 25 years.

On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:22:54 -0700, "Lew Hodgett"
wrote:

Probably be cheaper to head south for the winter even using paid crew
both ways.

Not with paid crew, and not if you have to pay dockage when you get
there. On the other hand you do get to use the boat for 12 months a
year and that's worth something.

"Wayne.B" wrote:

Not with paid crew, and not if you have to pay dockage when you get
there. On the other hand you do get to use the boat for 12 months a
year and that's worth something.

Time to consider dual dockage, 1/2 year north, 1/2 year south.

Has some benefits.

Lew

On 2007-09-08 09:42:53 -0400, said:

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 18:51:43 -0300, wrote:

Good point, my steel cradle is 6 feet wide and has 6 pads three on each
side. The pads are going 90 degrees up supporting the boat underneath
with the keel resting on a platform that is part of the cradle.
I was thinking of adding one stand on each side to supplement the
cradle lateral support.

Probably a good idea. Tie downs to helical anchor screws would be even
better I think but I've never seen anyone do that.

Does this mean that the probability of capsizing while on the hard with
the mast up is very remote?

Remote, but not impossible, as Isabelle proved a couple of Septembers
back on the Bay. Quite a few boats floated off their stands when the
water rose 11 feet.

Helical anchor screws or buried concrete blocks are used in some
locations. Problem with that around here is that we're usually stored
on a driveway and the marina owners would understandably be upset to
find holes drilled in the asphalt. Such tie-downs probably would *NOT*
have helped the boats that floated off their stands during Isabelle, as
the anchors would have been pulled out (most likely), the boats' cleats
or lines broken, or the boat sunk because it couldn't float OR only one
side's anchor(s) broke free.

May sound funny, but I have a thought to throw an anchor out the next
time a storm comes by, whether we're on the hard or in our slip.

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Jere Lull
Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
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