Boat Moving Question.

[goodbasil]

There must be a book on this subject somewhere. Anyone know of one?

How to get a boat off a home made cradle onto a trailer, then off the trailer back onto the cradle?
Can't pull from the stem, its rotten. Maybe a big wide strap around her butt.
Phoned about a high-op, $115- per hour, probably 4-5 hours.

Haven't looked into the price of helicopters yet.

[Yeadon]

How big is the boat?

[goodbasil]

LOD 21.3', Beam about 7.2' Draft about 1.5 to 2'. Ex lifeboat.

[peter radclyffe]

jacks, wedges, crowbars, silence, good breakfasts, grease, rigid steel joists, chainblocks, beams, trustworthy friends, barrels, wooden blocks, chains, ropes, come-alongs, leather gloves,

[Venchka]

Search the forum. See if Norm had any advice on how he got Prairie Islander on the trailer. P.I. was about the same size as your boat.

[JimConlin]

Brownell stands, a few blocks and a bottle jack or two make cradles unnecessary.
http://boatstands.com/images/front.jpg

[Ian Marchuk]

If you can get a trailer up to it, and if the cradle is reasonably sound, load them as a unit. Jack up the loaded cradle and block up cross timbers so that the trailer can be backed underneath. Remove blocking, and lower load onto trailer. Strap down.
That's the start of the book.
More info re location and trailer would help.

[Flitch]

Worked for me...
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1208/1236299832_805daf069a_o.jpg

[Woxbox]

How much does it weigh? The shallop at the shipyard is about 1500 pounds. More than once we've just gotten a gang together to pick it up. A dozen people can handle it. Another time we used a chain hoist to lift the front end, and put a floor jack under the other end. Next step -- roll the trailer underneath. Maybe you could figure a way to set up a lifting point for the hoist? Some scaffolding or a big tripod?

[Breakaway]

Well, if you're close to water, you drag weight the cradle, drag the works in at low water and wait for the tide to rise...
Seriously, with boats on blocks or stands, you just back the trailer under, using a jack so you can remove the blocks/stands as you go. Can your cradle be disassembled into to say, three lenghtwise sections and then bolted back together? If not, you need vertical lift of some sort, as others have suggested.

Kevin