Launched and back in Business

[brianhumber]

After the cold weather when I thought I would not be able to get all the jobs ticked off, its good to be in the water again. Really pleased with the shine on the old girls hull - amazing what a fine finshing polish and wax can do to a 16 year olds gel coat surface.
Have put some pictures of on http://uk.msnusers.com/brianssailingpictures plus one of a blast up the solent.

Now whats the forecast for Easter

 

[tyce]

enjoyed the pictures, in paticular the blast up the solent, counting the days till mine can go in

 

[Aja]

As an aside - I would ask the crane operator to put separators in the slings next time.....

Donald

 

[brianhumber]

I know what you mean but it looks farworse than it actually is/was. Also the skill of this yard in moving boats around is a joy to watch.

 

[FullCircle]

Lucky you! My yard has just 'delayed' the launch of our new child until 'at least 15th April' . Bugger, bugger. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
So I am going to do more of the work myself. At least I might save a few quid.

 

[Aja]

Once saw a boat remain in the slings like that overnight. Makes me sweat.

Donald

 

[BrianJ]

What a good lookng yacht... happy sailing
BrianJ

 

[BlueSkyNick]

For the thickies (eg me!) can you clarify what you mean by seperators. I am assuming you mean some form of padding between the webbing straps of the slings and the hull of the boat. Or is it something different?

 

[Rowana]

I think he means something that keeps the slings apart where they come up over the toerail and stops the deck being crushed inward. If you look at a travel hoist in a yard, you will see that the slings actually point away from the boat as they go up past the deck.

If you don't have this arrangement, and you just sling over the crane hook as shown in the photos, then you are putting undue strain on the deck-hull join.

The proper way with a crane is to have a square frame suspended from the crane hook, and the boat slung below this.

Personally, I wouldn't have any boat of mine lifted in the way shown in the photos.

All IMVHO, of course

 

[jonjo]

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Personally, I wouldn't have any boat of mine lifted in the way shown in the photos.

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Absolutely. My yacht was recently lifted in by a conventional crane but the straps were suspend from a square frame the width of which approximately matched the beam.

 

[brianhumber]

Re: Bendy Boats

You are right in that lifting this way allows an inward force on the hull to be resisted by the deck. However the deck has far bigger forces placed through it when sheeted hard in during beating and another strain is the droop the bow and stern adopt in slings due to the flexi hull. It took me several lifts before I got used to this and stopped panicking. Finally accepted the Baraccuda hull was designed to accept large movments when I measured the hull and deck movement in a near gale one day - well over 5mm.