A Baba 40 once fell off of its stands in my yard in Annapolis - after a
long rainy season, the ground gave away.
Fortunately, the marina and the boat had the same insurance company.

One of the bulkheads separated from the hull and so there was some
rebuilding to do in Oxford.

Alan

At 03:09 AM 5/4/2006, you wrote:
>Bummer. Yet, removing the front jacks to put a trailer under the boat for
>moving is standard procedure here in Mexico. Our boat has endured this
>process about fifteen times, and there are hundreds of other boats in the
>yard and storage we use moved about this way, and we cannot think of a
>single case of a boat being dropped.
>The boat will and should actually support itself on the keel, but the keel
>does rise forward, so the support has to be higher there. The jack stands
>don't actually support the boat, they just keep its "balance", keep it
>from tipping over sideways. The trailer that moves our boat - and everyone
>else's - has hydraulic arms that rise up under the hull to stabilize the
>boat while it sits on the keel and three stands - one on either side of
>the stern, and one centered under the stem. A requirement is these stands
>must be tight and the boat should be reasonably vertical to start with.
>The trailer also has movable horizontal struts down low which are slid
>under the boat, then rise to take the weight from the keel, the arms again
>just keeping balance. These trailers are propelled by catapillars and move
>boats around in the yard and also launch and haul them on a ramp.
>It is a good testimony that these boats survive being dropped as well as
>they do...
>Michael
>Cambria
>

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