Don’t you love it when...

[s2sailorlis]

...the Club hoist gets stuck...


...we hand cranked the flywheel for 90 minutes to lower the boat back in the water....and I tell you it was very hard to turn...

These are the 34’ club slings. I purchased a 30’ sling hoping it would alter the lift geometry so it would lift evenly...but it was worse...obviously I flunked geometry...so back to the drawing board...

[Sea Hunt Video]

Rick:

I may not be seeing it but if you do not have it you should have a horizontal line securing and snugging up the two vertical lift straps to keep them in position and not sliding or moving. I have always had two (port and starboard) but you should have at least one. If not, the forward strap could easily slip forward and up and your Cape Dory would come down hard onto the dock or into the water.

I know because this happened to a friend of mine several years ago.

Just a suggestion

[Jim Walsh]

Roberto is correct. The yard also hauls my boat "bow down" as full keel designs have a propensity for slipping in the slings. I have witnessed it myself but I have never seen one actually slip out of the slings entirely.
This is a picture of Orion being launched last April. Note the bow down stance and safety line between the lifting slings.

[s2sailorlis]

Normally I do have a strap. It was a bit of a goat rodeo this time.

[MHBsailor]

Good to know thanks! Hope I remember next Spring

[Paul D.]

If a travel lift with four independent cable winches for the straps, the driver can set the straps properly on the hull and then move the forward two strap winches back towards the center of the boat. I used this method when being ordered to haul out boats that were far too large for the little travel lift they had!

None of you guys should see the way our boats are hauled currently by the >80 year old German fellow at our marina! While he is a mechanical genius, it would be too much cardiac risk. But it is rather good fun.