I'm having a terrible striper season and might sink my boat and use it
as an oyster reef. In the event I opt not to resort to such extremes,
perhaps I will waste some more money by installing a boat lift. Anyone
have anything good or bad to say about any of the manufacturers for
piling mounted lifts in salt water?

Or I should say quote "manufacturers" unquote because after crawling
around lifts in my area it looks like they all use GE motors and the
gearboxes all look the same (since the fish hate me I had time to
google the latter and shazam the durn things all look like they came
from the same source "Boat Hoist USA"). A newer motor variant is the
AMS E-Drive (several offer that).

The only thing that looks different is the winders. And some are
galvanized vs aluminum. Watching the galvanized ladder I installed a
few years ago rot out -- hmm maybe I want aluminum.

They all seem to cost from $3500 to $4000 (the latter for aluminum).
Heck if I quit wasting $$$ on frozen menhaden in my futile search for
stripers I'll have that in no time.

Anyway, comments would be appreciated (about lifts not about stripers).