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Best place for travel lift straps?

  • May 30, 2012 4:28 PM
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    Deleted user
    Where is the best place for the straps? Should it be in line with the aft cabin bulkhead and the forward head bulkhead? Thanks for your help
  • May 30, 2012 5:55 PM
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    Reply # 937178 on 937120
    Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Jean: On Pygmalion W32, the straps are under the aft cabin where it meets the deck and under the mast or just about where you suggested.

    Jay
  • May 30, 2012 7:34 PM
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    Deleted user
    Thanks Jay
  • May 31, 2012 6:10 AM
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    Anonymous member
    You also might want to connect the two lift straps together to prevent the forward one from slipping off the keel
  • May 31, 2012 9:04 AM
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    When I had my 32 lifted I showed the operator a line drawing of the hull so he understood what he was looking at (he obviously saw a lot more fin keels and skeg-hung rudders). He eye-balled the location of the straps, and when he lifted it, he was almost perfectly balanced, according to the scales on the lift. He was a pro.
  • May 31, 2012 12:38 PM
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    Reply # 939186 on 937120
    Anonymous member

    Jean,

    I will send you a picture of a W32 on a travelift so you can see where the straps are located.  Then put a mark on the hull just below the caprail where the straps should be.  Insist that the straps be tied together if the yard does not do that automatically.