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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Initially Posted - 12/06/2012 : 19:31:13

...as you wait for [url="http://www.soundingsonline.com/dispatches/289498-video-accidents-happen"]launch time[/url] next spring.

Dave Bristle
Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge

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rrick
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Response Posted - 12/06/2012 : 23:13:00

Yard manager standing next to the owner "nothing a little marine-tex won't fix." Seriously, the risk of taking delivery of a yacht outside America might not be worth the tax savings. Even with monetary insurance coverage, the pain of losing literally years of planning and excitement for the cruse home disappear in 5 seconds. I just don't think I could handle that!

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 12/07/2012 : 06:45:36

Last year, my marina ordered and bought a new travelift rated for 50,000 pounds. Last fall, while they were hauling the biggest boat in the marina (but still less than 50,000 pounds), an axle broke and the whole wheel broke off and the boat dropped to the ground. The travelift manufacturer replaced all four wheels and axles at it's expense and picked up all the associated costs. Surprisingly, the damage to the boat appeared to be nominal, considering.... Even when you have skilled, experienced personnel operating new, modern equipment, sometimes s..t can still happen! The operator told me it was pretty terrifying, because initially, he didn't know whether a wheel had fallen off or whether the whole structure was collapsing on top of him.

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shnool
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Response Posted - 12/07/2012 : 06:55:34

That last one in the video was just evidence why a heavy keel is a great invention... it'd at least self righted after it was dropped in upside down! Looks like most of those accidents could have been avoided if the straps were linked fore-aft... Most slid off!

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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 12/07/2012 : 06:58:29

The marina where I store was lifting my C-25 out with a travel-lift and removing the mast with a separate crane... I walked up and was watching... The owner, who was operating the crane, said in effect, "Please--go away!" His explanation related to what could be one of Murphy's corollaries involving owners watching. We may have just seen proofs of the same corollary involving owners filming!

Edited by - Stinkpotter on 12/07/2012 07:00:18

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